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the waters run down every way fronn the cliffs, and being colle61ed[ 
below in channels, refemble rivulets^ this is the external appear- 
ance of the Sambioin coaft, whilft its infide abounds in minerals, 
and therein is found more than one ipecies of vitriol- in lome 
places it has white ftreaks, with layers of black earthy in other 
places it looks like melted glals, with fibres of wood Alining here 
and there 3 in others again it is Iprinkled, as it were, with a 
fparkhng powder ^ befides vitriol, there is a barky kind of earth, 
of which there are whole hills, and a kind of wood that runs for 
a great way thro' the mountains on the fhore ; then there is a 
y-ellowilh earth, that refemhles oker, a bluifhiclay extended 
along the coafl at certain intervals ;; the moll remarkable ftones 
are the UaByli Idiet, Icattercd amongft the rocks and fand, and 
they are alio dug out of the mountains; the rocks, next the fea, 
are very hard in one part, and in others friable ; there is like wife 
found petrified wood, and ftones covered over with fea-weed, of 
a irnall and veficular leafj befides common ftone, this coaffe 
lometimes yields diamonds and jalper ftones • the neighbouring 
fields are very barren , the woods are thin, and without any pine- 
trees; there are great numbers of whales feen bafking and playing 
on /helves in the fea : On this coafl amber is found amidft heapvS 
of flones and fand, but it is not generated in them, much lefs in the 
fea- weeds, tho' it is thrown out upon the fliore, and wrap'd up there- 
in 3 and notwithftanding it is every where found within the bowels 
of the mountains by the lea-fide, in layers of vitriol, yellow earth, 
fand, and blui/h clay, yet its firft original is not owing to any 
ol thcfe5 and amber is leldom in the parts of vitriol, yellow earth, 
and land, and what is found therein is very fmall in quantity, 
and of little value 5 as to the veins of bluifli clay, the cale is not 
fo certain, becaufe they are unaccefTible, tho' the country people 
affirm that they contain excellent amber, and in great quantities 5 
and M. Hartman having broken a piece of the clay, found real 
amber therein, which was covered over with a thin rind, and of 
a deep yellow colour: The experience of many years confirms, 
that the wood which runs thro' th^ mountains yields amber plen- 
tifully 3 and the diggers obferve and follow its courfe, and 
always with fuccefs, as far as the tottering foil will fuffer them to 
go J the barky earth contains little amber, and that his firm, and 
of a dilagreeable ailoux-^ this wood can by no means be clafled 
arnong the wood of trees; for never were feen fuch large trunks 
Ol trees, wmch lying along, extend their fibres fcveral fathoms in 
length and breadth 3 nor "is it like the wood of trees, having 
neither pith ncr bark, nor th.U divarication, or knottinefs ot 
branches, 
