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graines, in powlder, or in ftpne. They do call golde in 

 gram^fmall morfels of gold, which they find whole, 

 without mixture ofany other mettall , which hath no 

 neede of melting or refining in the fire : and they call 

 them pippins, for that commonly they are like to pip 

 pins, or feeds ofmelons,or pompions : and that whcr- 

 of lob fpeakes, when he faies, Lwe illius <f#r#;# 5 though 

 ibrnctimes there be greater , and fuch as I have feene 

 weighed many poundes . It is the excellence of this 

 mettall alone (as P//## affirm es) to be found thus pure 

 .and perfe<5i, which is not feene in any other mettalles, 

 which are alwayes earthly, and have afcumme, and 

 needepurging by the fire : I have likewife feene filver 

 naturall like to Yea thcrcjs anotljerkindg. 



which the Indians call Papas, SS3T!ometimes they find 

 peeces very fiue and pure , like to fmall round rootes, 

 the which is rare in that mettall,but vfuall in gold.Thcy 

 finde little of this golde in pippin , in refpeft of the o- 

 therkindes. Golde in ftoneis a veine of gold thatgrp- 

 weth or ingenJereth within the ftone or flint, as I have 

 feene in the mines ofCuruma, within the government 

 of Salines, very great ftones pierced and intermixed 

 with gpldjothers that were halfe gold, and halfe ftone. 

 The golde which groweth in this manner , is fourid in 

 pittes'or mines , which have their veines like to the fil 

 ver mines, but it is very hard to drawe it foorth : Agas 

 Ur chides writesjnjiis firft bookc of the Eritkreari or red 

 fea (as Phocion rcportes in his B&Kotheca) of the man 

 ner and fafliion to refine golde, drawne out of ftones, 

 the which the antient Kings of 'Egypt were wont to vfe, 

 &it is aftrange thing to fee how that which is written 

 refemblcs properly to the mannerrfievj^c_a^this day 

 in refining thcfe mettalTs QT^iSiifiS^i^r^\\Q grea- 



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