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wronging any contrary motion. And by the ArfliquePofe, you 
may advance and retard this moveuienr, if you (hould find any , 
inequality, without altering at all the great Spring. 
So far the Defcriptt0n of this artificial Globe ^-^ of which we 
. hope we (hall very fliortl y know the price. 
\/i DefiriptioPi of the Diamond-mines ^ as it was f rejected l?y the 
Right Homurable^ the Earl Mar^alof England^ to the R. So- 
ciety. 
He parrs of the World known to contain JJi^^W/ , are. 
J ^ the Ifland Borneo^ and the Continent of India extra ^ in- 
tr& Gangem: Pegu is likewife reported' to have feveral; bos. 
the King ROt parent^ his Country being but thinly iohabitedp 
contents himfelf with his Mines of Rubies, Saphtres, Topaffes^ £- 
meraldsy Gold, Silver y Erafi, Ti^f} and Lead^ and feverai other 
GooHnbdities his Country affords, in great plenty, rather than 
to fuffer new enquiries to be nude^ left the difcovery of fucli 
an additional Treafurc (hbuld invite foine of his Neighbours, 
more potent, to invade him. But leaving the defcriprion of othep 
places to thofe ttiat know rhem better, i Oia!l only keep Hiy felf 
to theCoaft Coromandel^mih which I acquainted, and ha-? 
vlng vifited feverai of if S-Mines, am able to fay r.me[hiogthereof 
Experimentally. 
The D i am orvd- Mines in thefe pares ar^ generally adjacent to 
Rocky-hills, or MountaiQs , whereof begins a great Ledge or 
Range near Cape Comorm, extending in breadth about 50 Englifi 
miles, fomeconjoyning, others fcaCfer'd : and running thence 
in length quite through Bengak^ In.among, and near thefe Hills, 
in feverai p!aces,are known to be (as its believed moft of thfm 
have) Mines • many of them^are poiTeffed by petty Princes , or 
Rajaes^ of the Hundues • fome driven thither for flielter by the 
M(^res, who have taken the greateft part of their Country f ©ji 
them ; others never overcome,as the Rajaes, on the Hills in and 
near Bf;?^^/^, who admit of little or no Commerce with their 
Neighbours or paflage through their Country, which (being 
barren, in few places affording good water,the ways craggy and 
very eoylfom,efpecially to an Army) the Moo-rs covet not ^ but 
let them enjoy it peacably ; yet to prevent danger, they forbrd 
digging (as the King of Pegudoes) or dig, fome few Mines onVy 
very privately J fo- that a great part of tfee Mines are unfearcht 
and concealed. But thg Kingdoms of Qol^of^d^md fifiapore 
