322 The Natural Hifiofy Part lVl . 



and concealed them. Thus the Gol* 

 den Pyrit£y or, as they are comroonP 

 ly called, Gold-grains, Amethyftuie 

 Pebles, Amber, and other Stones of 

 Worth, are uncovered by fuch Rivers 

 as chance to run through the Grounds 

 which contain thofe Bodies in them* 

 Thus likewife Rains, by their wafh* 

 ing the Earth down from off the 

 ^ p^r^ 5. Hills % clear, and difclofe fuch P/m^, 

 confi, Sekmt^j or other Bodies that happen 

 to be lodged, near the Surface of the 

 Earth, in thofe Hills : and 'tis by this 

 means chiefly that the Grain-Gold, up- 

 on all the Golden Coajl (as 'tis called) 

 in Guinea. , is difplayed ; the Rains 

 falling there in great Abundance, and 

 with incredible Fvorce , thereby the 

 more powerfully beating off the Earth. 

 This the Negroes^ Natives of thofe 

 Parts, know full well ; and therefore 

 do not expeft to find much of it unlefs 

 * vid. after the Seafon of their Rains |1 ; when 

 Id} j' ^'^^y never fail to find of it, no more 

 conf. 8. than the Amber-Gatherers fail of find- 

 Pag, 126. i^g fjj^f upon the Sea-Coafl:s after a 



Storm. And if thofe Perfbns who are 

 curious in colle&ing either Minerals^ or , 

 the Shells^ Teeth^ or other Parts of Ani- 

 mal Bodies that have been buried in 



the 



