222 V. Ball — Additional note on tlie ancient diamond mines. [No. 3, 



I would direct the attention of any one knowing the neighbourhood 



to the identification of Almaspinde, Kaper and Eligada though indeed it is 

 now of no very great importance to fix them. 



Tavernier's route to Masulipatam above alluded to is as follows,* the 

 distances in this case being given in costes not in gos. 



Golconda to Tenara, 4 Costes 



Tenara to Jatenagar, 12 „ 



Jatenagar to Patengi, 12 „ 



Patengi to Penguel, 14 „ 



Penguel to Nagelpar (Nagoolpad), 12 „ 17 miles. 



Nagelpar, to Lakabaron (Lukkarum), 11 „ 15 „ 



Lakabaron to Coulour (Kollur), 11 „ 15£ „ 



There runs a great river by the town of Coulour, which 

 falls into the gulf of Bengala near Masulipatam. 



Coulour to Kali Kaly, 12 



Kah Kaly to Beyouar (Bezwacla), 6 



Near Beyouar you must repass the river of Coulour 



(i. e., Kistna) Beyouar to Vouchir, 4 „ 



Vouchir to Nilimor, 4 „ 



Half way between Vouchir and Nilimor you cross a 

 great river on a timber floating bridge. 



Nilimor to Milmol, 6 „ 



Milmol to Masulipatam, 4 „ 



It would be useless to attempt to fit Tavernier's distances too -closely 

 with modern measurements, but it would seem from the equivalent 

 measurements in miles, taken from the map, that the coste here was 

 under li miles. Tavernier speaks of the badness of the roads which no 

 doubt necessitated many turnings. He praises the palkis, wherein " you 

 are carried with more speed than in any part of India." 



The value of the rati in Tavernier's time is a sore puzzle. He gives it 

 as equal to 3% grains ; these in my calculation of the weight of the great 

 Mogul diamond, as it was when he saw it, I treated of as French grains 

 the equivalent of which would be 2*7 English grains, and I stated that if 

 instead of this we could put into the equation 1*84 or more properly 

 1-848 we should get out the exact weight of the Koh-i-Nur. Now accord- 

 ing to Mr. E. Thomas, F. R. S.f the old rati in the normal Hindu system 



* Travels, Part II, Book I. Chapter XI, p. 69. 

 f Percy's metallurgy, silver and gold, p. 375. 



