mitain in them fcope enough of ground, known to have Mines 
fufficient to furnilh ail the World plentifully with Diamonds; 
but their Kings permit digging only in feme places appointed, 
left , as it is imagined , they fhould become too common ; and 
withal for fear ot tempting the threatning greatnefs of ^ureng- 
forbidding alfo tbofe places that afford the largeft Scones, 
or elfe keeping workmen in them for their own private ufes: 
So that but a very fmail quantity (incomparifonof what might 
be) and thofe only of ordinary fize, are found. 
In the Kingdom of Gclco^da Czs near as I can gather from the 
beft acquainted) are 2 3 Mines now employed, or that have been 
fo lately , ^uolure^Codavpillicul^ ^^aLi(?ary Buttifhalem^ 
Ramiah, Gurem, Muttamfellee^ Cunure, GMnjeeconetn^ LuttA* 
ryaar^ Joifdgerree^ Pirai , DuguUee^ Purvfiillee^ AnmtafelUe^ 
Girregeta^ Maarmood^ Wazzergerree^ Mttmemurg^ Langumbcoty 
Whootoor^ Muddemurg^ and Melrvidee or the New Mine, 
^uolure was the firrt Mine made ufe of in ihi; Kingdom* The 
Earth is fomething yellowilh, not unlike the colour of our Gra- 
vel dried; but whiter in feme places where it abounds with 
finooth pebbles, much like fome of thofe that come out of our 
GraveVpits in EngUnd^ They ufe to find great quantities in the 
Vein, if it may properly be fo called, the Diamonds nor lying in 
continued Cluflers as fome imagine, but ftequently fo very fcat- 
tering;that fometimes in the fpaceof ^ of an Acre/of ground,dig- 
ged between two or three fathoms deep, there hath been nothing 
found ; efpecially in the Mines that afford great Stones , lying 
near the fuperficies of the Earthy and about three fathoms deep; 
deeper they could not dig for water ; it being in a Vale near a 
River. In other places the Earth is mixc with rugged Stones, 
where they feldom mine deeper,though in higher ground,before 
thecolourof the Earth alters, and the Vein ceafes ; which they 
give a guefs at by the fmall Stones they find in the Earth, the 
principal guide they have in the difcovery of the Mines. 
The Diamonds found in thefe Mines are generally wellfhaped, 
many of them pointed, and of a good lively whice water 5 but 
it alfo produces fome ^^/Zw ones, fottie irw/?,and of other co- 
lours. They are of ordinary fizes,from about 
^ ^ Mangeiin/V V fix in a ^la;2^elm (of which they find but 
Srams m weight, r n r /- %/r i- l r -r 
faith Linfchoten. f*^^) five or fix MangeUns , each ; fome of 
10, 15, 20 they find but rarely. They have 
frequentiv 
