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Tour Wife arid Children fell^ fell what you have^ 

 Spare not your Cloaths^nay^ make your felf a Slave j 

 JSut money get^ then to CURRURE make hafi ; 

 There fearch the Mines ^ a Priz.e yoi^l find at laft. 



After which he immediately returned with 

 his Stone to Go a. 



Not far from Currure are the Mines of 

 Lattawa^r and Ganjeconta^ which are in the 

 fame Soil as Currure^ and afford Stones not 

 unlike: But Lattarvaar hath many reprefent- 

 ing the great end of a Razor-blade^ thin on 

 one fide and thick on the other^ very white 

 and of an excellent Water ; but the belt 

 of the Mine is worn out , and Canjecon^ 

 ta employed only to the Kings private 

 ufe. 



Jonagerre^Virai Dugulle^ Purwillee and Anun^ 

 tapellee^ confift alfo of Red earth, are now 

 employed^ and afford many large Stones ; 

 part of them of a greenifh Water , but the 

 moft abfolute Mines are of Waz.z^erg-erre and 

 Munnemurg^ (the other rather reprefenting 

 Pits than Mines for there they fink through 

 high Rocks till they go fo far below their ba* 

 lis, that they can go no further for Water, 

 in fome places 40 or 50 Fathom deep. The 

 fuperficies of the Rocks coniiffc of hard, firm, . 

 white Stone, into which they cut a Pit like 

 a Well, of about 4 or 5, in fome places d 

 Foot deep, before they come to a cruft of a 

 Mineral Stone, like the Mineral of Iron ; 

 when they fill the Hole with Wood and keep 

 as hot a Fire as they can there for two or 



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