no . DIAMOND MINES OF PANNA 



notinhg for many months, and to me they appeared like a lottery in which 

 there are a few prizes and many blanks — they have an advantage in re- 

 quiring little or no outlay, and are consequently wrought by all classes, 

 but it is not unlikely that more capital has been sunk in them in the shapes 

 of labour than has ever been returned. 



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The diamond is occasionally, though very rarely, found on the sur- 

 face, nor is it improbable that some lucky chance of this kind may have 

 led to the discovery of the mines. 



iE' Mines of Transported Diamonds. 



, The above is a brief account of all those matrices of the diamond iii> 

 the Panna district, which fall under the denominations of madda, Idl- 

 TcaTcru, or hadda ; but there are others where the gem is found in deposites 

 with which it appears to have been swept away from its native beds, as at 

 Maj goha Viudi in the glen of the Bdgin river; the mines of the former 

 place are peculiar and require separate mention, but in those of the glen, 

 the diamond is found under rocky debris, both on the banks and in the 

 bed of the river, and also in the basin which receives the cascade : its 

 matrix in this state, is a confused mixture of red ironstone pebbles, angu- 

 lar fragments of sandstone, and pieces of common kankar, heaped toge- 

 ther in ferruginous sand or clay, the detritus in fact of its original gangue ; 

 and the mines of course have a great resemblance to the superficial mines 

 above-mentioned, but they are said to be rather more productive, and there 

 is great reason to believe that the basin of the cascade has never yet been 

 emptied or excavated except to a trifling extent. 



Majgoha Mines. 



The mines of Majgoha are in the western part of the diamond tract, 

 and they may properly be called its western boundary ; they are situated 



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