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work of strings of calc spar enclosing laminse and small lumps of green 

 clay. In the only hole I saw they were working the yellow clay from the 

 crevices of this ; but the men told me that at a greater depth there are 

 alternating layers of green mud and of its mixture with calc spar in which 

 diamonds are found. 



I suppose all the workings in the gorge of the Boghin are to be called 

 alluvial, as no doubt, the entire excavation is to be 



Workings in Boghin. 



attributed to the action of the river, but it is 

 difficult to apply the term e recent' to what must be so very remote. At 

 the upper end of the gorge there are two falls of 200 feet each, and there 

 are workings throughout the whole length, to near Kalinger. The princi- 

 pal diggings I saw were at the lower end of the inner valley, they were 

 removing some twelve feet of dark brown clayey sand to get at the boulder 

 bed, in the base of which the diamonds are found; but both here and 

 below the narrow gorge the gravel at the surface of the river bed is 

 much worked. The natives spoke to me of a European who, some 

 twenty years ago, had made an attempt at mining on a large scale — his 

 diggings were on the flanks of the limestone hill, some fifty or one hundred 

 feet over the river, the ore being a jasper gravel gathered from the deep 

 surface crevices of the limestone — as well as I could understand their 

 pronunciation, the man's name was Berkeley, but I have not seen any 

 written account of his experiment : the remains of his wash pits and 

 picking floors are there still. 



The limited distribution of the transported diamonds is more puzzling 



to me than that of the rock ore : so much so that I 



Limited distribution. 



decline, in this case, to believe in the instincts of 

 the natives on the subject. The valley just west of Punnah is in every 

 way similar to that of Udesna and equally favorably situated with res- 

 pect to the rock ore, yet I did not see a single trial pit in it. In the 

 other direction the gorge of the Runj seems as favorably situated as that 

 of the Boghin, yet there are no diggings; indeed there cannot but be 

 diamonds in it for within fifty yards of the top of the waterfall there are 



