110 Memorandum on the Geological structure [No. 2. 



the lowest class in the country, who wash for it, always demand an 

 advance before they will set to work, and at the same time steadily 

 refuse to work by the day, insisting on selling it at a fixed rate to 

 their employer. They can always reckon on earning from three to 



says Col. Ouseley in a report to Government in 1847, ' is a quarter of a coss E. of 

 the village. The three houses of gold diggers can only collect one or two ruttees 

 a day.' 



4 There are six other places where gold is found. In mouzah Kumhar on the 

 Koorja river, in Kauraja, Saiga and Byraggy on the sides of the Sungooi 

 river at Bakarrama on the banks of the Bhurrary river in Baghbehal at Ju- 

 mergy in one of its Tolas called Pilma or Pimla on the banks of the Mynee river, 

 but at all these places the quality of the gold is inferior (or white gold " Chakba 

 Sona") to that of Robkobe, and there are no gold finders in any of these villages.' 



' There is no foreign traffic in gold, the villages exchange rice, &c. with the gold 

 finders of Robkobe, and only in very small quantities, it is sold at one rupee the 

 Masha, or at the rate of ten or twelve rupees a Gold Mohur. It would be desira- 

 ble to send a person who understands these things, to the place after the rains, 

 from Calcutta, one who is able to judge of the quantity that might by scientific 

 means be realized, (this is not like mere sand washing, it is a " Khan" or mine, 

 and may prove to be invaluable :)' 



' In a letter dated a month later Col. Ouseley calls attention to the surprising dif- 

 ference between a third supply of Robkobe gold dust which he was then sending 

 to Government, and the dust generally washed from the sands of a river. 



' The latter description consists invariably of minute lamina, as if in its passage 

 among the rocks, stones and gravels of the river, it had been hammered into thin 

 scales, this dug from the matrix, it is observable — is in granules of various forms — 

 it is also of a richer hue.' 



Subsequently Col. Ouseley sent eleven rupees weight of gold from Phursabehal 

 in Juspore a fief of the Srigooja State, and about fifty miles from Robkobe. Here 

 also the gold is dug for, not washed — each village is bound to pay a certain weight 

 of gold annually to the Rajah, the Thekadars buying from the diggers and paying 

 them for it in rice. Villagers from the adjacent States also buy gold here. 



Mr. Dodd's assay report on the first supply from Robkobe was as follows, show- 

 ing the gold dust to be exactly of standard quality. 



Gold. Silver. Alloy. Total. 



91,667 3,646 4,687 100,000 



A second report dated August 1847, is after assaying some melted lumps as well 

 as dust. 



Table exhibiting the results of assays on the 3d supply of gold dust, and the 2nd 

 of lumps forwarded by Lieut. -Col. Ouseley, Governor General's Agent S. W. Fr. 

 from the mines of Robkobe and Phursabehal. 



