The Occurrence and Distribution of Diamonds in India, 563 
MooNIMUDDAGOO. 
In the neighbourhood of Moonimuddagoo sixteen miles west- 
by-south of Banaganpilly there is a continuation of the diamond- 
bearing strata, which cover the older Kadapah rocks as with a 
thin skin. The locality is described both by Mr. King and Cap- 
tain Newbold. The mines have long been deserted, but according 
to the last named authority, there was in his time a colony of 
diamond polishers in the town. 
RAMULKOTA. 
The position of these mines is variously stated as being from 
eighteen to twenty-one miles from Karnul, ina southerly direction. 
They are also described by Mr. King and Captain Newbold. 
They are now merely alluvial washings in the debris of the 
Banaganpilly group, but formerly there were regular mines. 
Captain Newbold says :— 
“The pits, though not occupying so large a superficies, are deeper and 
far more extensive than those near Kadapah, the old excavations in the 
rocks resemble those of Banganapilly and Moonimudgoo. The diamonds 
that were shown me here, one in the parent rock, the conglomerate, 
were of an inferior size and but few crystallized in the octohedral form. 
They had severally white, grey, yellow and greenish tints, but it was 
told me that those found in the conglomerate rock are generally of a 
superior description with a fine roseate tinge.” 
Mining and washing is carried on as at Kadapah. There are 
300 natives at work in the wet season, but only 20 when visited 
by Newbold. 
The contractors lease the mines for 750 rupees from the Nawab 
of Karnul, and sublet to minor speculators. 
The hire of a labourer is four pice or about three halfpence, and 
a meal of rice per diem. 
The exact identity of the locality described by Tavernier as 
Raulkonda in the Karnatic, I have not been able to make out 
w similarity in the sound suggests that it may have been the 
same as the above, but the description of the geographical posi- 
tions respectively, do not agree. Possibly it should be identified 
with the modern Rowpoor to the east of Kadapah., 
