2 4^ Mifcellanea Cunofd^ VoL 1 1 h 



Mines now employed, 6r that have been & 

 lately, viz, Quolure^ CoddxvilUcui^ Malabar^ 

 Buttefhdem^ Ramiah^ Gurem^ Muitamfellee^ 

 Currurey Ganjeeconeta^ Luttaxvaar^ Jondgerre^ 

 Tirdi^ JDugUlle^ Purrvillee^ Anuntafelle^ Girroge* 

 tay Mdarmoody JVaz.z,€rgerrej Munnemurg^ 

 Langumbdoty Whootoor^ Muddemurg^ and Mel^ 

 rvillee or the New Mine. 



Quotoure Was the firft Mine made ule of 

 in this Kingdom. The Earth is fbmething 

 Yellowifli, not unlike the Colour of our 

 Gravel dried ^ but whiter in fome Places? 

 where it abounds with fmwth Pebbles, much 

 like fome of thofe that come out of our Gra- 

 vel-pits in England. They ufe to find great 

 quantities in the Vein, if it may properly 

 be fo called, the Diamonds not lying in 

 continued Clufters as fome imagine, but fi e- 

 (guently fo very fcattering that fometimes 

 in the fpace of % of an Acre of Ground, 

 digged between two or three fathoms Deep, 

 there hath been nothing found efpecially 

 in the Mines that afford great Stones, ly- 

 ing near the fuperficies of the Earth, and 

 about three Fathoms deep *, deeper they 

 could not dig for Water ^ it being in a Vale 

 near a River. In other places the Earth is 

 mixt with rugged Stones, where they fel* 

 dom mine deeper, though in higher ground, 

 before the Colour of the Earth alters, and 

 the Vein ceafes which they give a guefs at 

 by the fmall Stones they find in the Earth, 

 the principal Guide they have in the difcove- 

 ry of the Mines. 



The Diamonds found in thefe Mines are 

 generally well-fliaped, many of them point- 

 ed 



