Ittdtes ^tt fliutthe4»enfulng months, by reafon of tbe danger of tJrat ^ea-* 
But befidcs tbisDircdion, the Book is not quite deRitute o( Natural Ob. 
fervationy, Jt relates, i. How Diamonds are found and feparated in Go/- 
tonda-^ They take of the Earth, held to be proper to form them, which i§ 
reddifli, and diftinguifh'd with white veins, and full of flints and hard 
lumps. Then they put near the places, which they will digge, a clofe and 
even Earth • and to it they carry thofe Earths, they have digg'd out of the 
Mine, and gently fpread- it abroad, and leave it expofed to the Sun for two 
days^ Then being dryed enough they beat it, and fifting this Earth, they 
find the Diamonds in afties of Flints, in which Nature hach fet them. Here ' 
he adds, that the King of that Country farms out thefe Diamond^ Mines for 
($00000. Crowns ^er annum^ referving to himfelf the right of all the Dia- 
monds, ihat exceed ten Carats in weight , There are Diamonds, thac 
mount CO 3 5 . and 40* Carats, And this is the great Treafure of that Prince. 
Ihat themoft eReeraed fruit in thofe parts; the Dnrion ( of thebig^ 
Hefs and fhape ofan ordinary Melon)h2.s a very anpleafing and uneven untoU 
lerable fmell-, like to that of a rotten Apfle, 
S. J hdit Riee profpers mofi: in waterifh grounds - and^ that the fields, 
where it grows beft, refembles rather to Manfhes, than to any ploughed 
Soyle : Yea, thatthat Grain has the force, though 6. or 7. foot water ftand 
©ver it, to (hoot its Stalk above it and that the Stem, which bears it, ri- 
les and grows proportionably to- the height of the water, that drowns the 
iield. 
4* That the way of keeping ones felf har^'nlefs from awiid Elephant, 
when he runs dirediy upon one,is, to hold fomething to him 5 as a Hat, a 
Cost, a piece of Linnen , which he feifes on withhis Trunk; and playes 
with it, as if he were plea fed with this apparent homage, done to him v and 
fopafFeson, If he be in a rage, that ihen the only remedy is^ to turn in- 
cefjnntly behind him to the left fide, in regard that naturally (faith this Au- 
thor ) he never torns himfcif that way , but to the right : And the time, there 
n to £urn,b€caufe of the Beafts unweildinefs, affords leifure enough to 
chnDbe up fomc high Tree, or to mount fome fteep ground : all which if it 
*ail, by holding always his tail, and turmng with him, the Ammal wiU be 
fired, and give opportufjity to cfcape^ 
London, Printed by T. d^ for John Marthh Printer to 
the ^)al Society, and arc to be fold u the S^/ialkck 
without Tem^le^Ba^ 
