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MR PARK'S SECOND JOURNEY. 
water, and carefully crumbled down, was variously 
agitated in the calabash, till, the lighter parts being 
thrown out, there remained only a black substance, 
called gold-rust. After a little farther agitation, 
the grains of gold began to appear. In two pounds 
of gravel, there were found twenty-three particles, 
though some of them very small. The quantity 
of gold-rust was forty times that of the gold. The 
woman assured Park, we suspect with exaggera- 
tion, that they often found pieces of gold as large 
as the fist. The washing takes place only at the 
beginning and end of the rains. 
From Shrondo, the travellers proceeded along 
the mountains of Konkodoo to Dindikoo. Here 
they found also a number of gold pits, sunk to the 
depth of about twelve feet, with notches in the 
sides to serve the purpose of ladders. They ob- 
served, along the banks of a rivulet, a yellow and 
rusty-coloured sand, in which the gold was con- 
tained. The mountains here exhibited very steep 
precipices, of a coarse species of red granite. They 
are cultivated to the summit ; and the villages ap- 
peared to Mr Park romantic beyond any thing 
he had ever seen. They are built in the most de- 
lightful glens of the mountains ; and the inhabi- 
tants, while the thunder rolls in awful grandeur 
over their heads, can look from their tremendous 
precipices over all the wild and woody plain, 
