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Goodloor or Godalore, a Tillage, on* that river, where the Ramgheer 

 and Kummemmctt Sircars meet, a gold mine was profitably work- 

 ed some sixty years ago by the Palooneha Rajah. On making in- 

 quiries I found that, although I could hear nothingof the mine, gold 

 washings had taken place at a comparatively recent period in se- 

 veral nullahs which feed the Grodavery from the south, during the 

 rains, bunds were thrown across these streams, and at intervals 

 when the rains ceased the sand and mud collected by these means 

 were washed and sifted by a peripatetic race of gold finders em- 

 ployed by a wealthy bunnyah, who rented from the Palooneha 

 Rajah the privilege of collecting the gold dust. Several years 

 ago from the excessive rent demanded by the Rajah, this search 

 for gold was abandoned, and has never again been resumed, it is 

 probable that the speculation was not a very successful one, or the 

 proprietor himself would have carried it on, at his own risk and 

 expense. I fear there is no California in the Nizam's dominions, 

 never did there exist a race so keen and eager to arrive at wealth 

 by a short cut as the Indian, and had gold to any extent existed, 

 no oppression nor exaction would have stood in the way of their 

 possessing themselves of it, by fair means or foul. 



Coal. — I have already sent a communication on the Coal found 

 in the bed of the Pranlieeta, close to its junction with the Groda- 

 very, and to this I refer. The subject of rendering the Grodavery 

 navigable has lately been discussed, and some interest has been 

 excited in what would appear to be a measure very feasible and 

 very advantageous. Should this scheme ever be carried out, the 

 mineral, conveniently situated as it is, might be turned to profit. 

 The surface of the Coal measure has as yet, so to speak, been mere- 

 ly scraped, but from the impressions of fossils found on the Coal 

 chiefly lipededendrous plants there can be no doubt of a true Coal 

 mine being there in existence. 



Diamonds. — No production of the Hydrabad country is so far 

 famed as the Grolcondah diamonds ; we hear of them in our nursery, 

 our greatest poets refer to them in their songs, and the gold of Pe- 

 ru is coupled with them in descriptions of unbounded or inexhaus- 

 tible wealth. Prom Tavernier, who visited the mines and first de- 

 scribed them, to the latest traveller in India, they have been objects 

 of research and curiosity, and though their glory has now faded 

 away, an undying interest clings to their name. 



