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not know : All thefe places are at the feet of very great 
Mountains. 
The manner of their Fifhing is not extraordinary, 
the poor People in the warm Months before Harveft is 
ripe, whilft: the Rivers are low and clear, go into the 
Water, fome with their Toes, fome with wooden 
Tongs, and fome by putting a fharpned Stick into 
the opening of the Shell take them up : And although 
by common Eftimate not above one Shell in a Hundred 
may have a Pearl, and of thofe Pearls not above one 
in a Hundred be tolerably clear, yet a vaft number of 
fair Merchantable Pearls, and too good for the Apothe- 
cary, are offered to Sale by thole People every Sum- 
mer Affize. Some Gentlemen of the Country make 
good Advantage thereof, and my felf whilft there, faw 
one Pearl bought for 5:0 Shillings that weighed 36 Car- 
rats, and was valued at 40 /. and had it been as clear 
as fome others produced therewith , would certainly 
have been very valuable. Every body abounds with 
ftories of the good Pennyworths of the Country, but I 
will add but one more : A Miller took out a Pearl which 
he fold for 4 /. 10 s. to a Man that fold it for 10 I. who 
fold it to the late Lady Glenanly for 30 /. with whom I 
faw it in a Necklace ; (he refufed 80 /.for it from the late 
Dutchefs of Ormond. I was informed that in the courfe 
of the River of about Sixteen Miles, there were many 
deep Pools, which could never have been fearched by 
thefe unmechanical People, for whom I made a Dredge 
with fome Teeth in the Knife of it to rake them out of 
the Sand, and in that only particular differing from the 
common Oyfier Dredge ; as alfb little Hand-dredges, 
not unlike what I had feen Men in the River of Thames 
taking up Ballaft with. 
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