512 Account of a visit to the Jugloo [No. 6. 



practised the vocation in the Northern Provinces of Burmah, and 

 a few men with kodals, pick-axes and shovels. 



After about an hour's walk from the Dihing up the stream of the 

 Jugloo, when we first came on pebbles, we commenced washing in 

 a rough wooden pan made for the occasion. The very first attempt 

 gave a few minute specks of rather pale gold ; we continued wash- 

 ing at intervals as we advanced, and every panful of gravel was 

 found to contain a few of these spangles. At a point which seemed 

 favourable for the purpose, we turned a portion of the stream and 

 made a hole three feet in its bed. The washings from this depth 

 decidedly gave a greater number of spangles and of a richer colour, 

 than those we had obtained from the surface washings. Rising from 

 a part of the stream the section of a hill about fifty feet in height, 

 of coarse reddish sandstone, was left bare and perpendicular by a 

 land slip. This contained a stratum of gravel about fifteen feet above 

 the highest water-mark, some of which I caused to be washed, and it 

 too was found to contain gold, indicating that the presence of that 

 metal was not confined to spots acted on by the waters of the 

 Jugloo ; sand and gravel taken from occasional water-courses leading 

 to the Jugloo were washed with the same result. 



Retracing our steps we proceeded up another branch of the Jug- 

 loo, and were joined by a party of gold-washers deputed by me to 

 obtain specimens, who took us to the scene of their operations about 

 half a mile from the junction of the two rivers. They had been 

 working two pans and, to assist the operation, they had constructed 

 two small embankments with bamboos and rubbish which divided 

 the stream into three channels and enabled them to turn all the 

 water into or out of the central channel. Their practice is to col- 

 lect with small wooden scrapers a heap of gravel at the lower end 

 of their central channel ; upon this they cause the stream to play, 

 and with sieves made of bamboo they sift the heap and throw aside 

 the pebbles. 



The stream carries off the lighter particles of the sand thus dis- 

 turbed. Pansful of the residue, which consists entirely of mineral 

 fragments, are then taken up and washed in tfie usual manner with 

 results far more satisfactory, than when the gravel is washed in the 

 pan without being subjected to this preliminary process. 



