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m commemoration whereof he caufed a great Stone to be erefted 
in the place, with an Infcription engraven on it, in the Hundues 
or TeMmga Tongue^ to the following eff eft, which remains to be 
^ feento this day ; 
Totir Wife and Children fell^fell what you biive^ 
Spare not your Clothes^ nay^make your [elf a Slave i 
But money get , then to CURRURE make hajl ; 
There fearch the Mines y a prize you* I find at lafi. 
After ^ hich he immediately returned with his Stone to Goa. 
Not far from Curruredxt the Mines of Lattatvaar and Gan- 
.jeeconta, which are in the fame Soy 1 as Currure^and afford Scones 
not unlike: But Lattav^aar hath many reprefcnting the great 
.end of a Razor-blade, thin on one fide and thick on \i\t other, 
very white and of an excellent water ; but the beft of the Ivline is 
worn our, and Gmjeeconta employed only to the Kings private 
ufe. 
Janagerre^ PiraiJDugulle^ Furwilhe and Jnuntapellee, confift 
alfo of Red earrh , are now employed, and afford many large 
Stones I part of them of a greenifh water ; but tJhe moft abfoince 
Mines are of Wazzergerre and Munnemurg^ (theocher rather re- 
prefenting Pits than Mines ;) for there they fink through high 
Rocks rill they go fb far below their bafis , that they can go no 
further for water, in feme places 40 or 50 fathom deep. The 
fuperficies of the Rocks confift of hard,firm^ white flone, into 
which they cue a Pit like a Well, of about 4 or in fome places 
6 foot deep, before they come to a cruflof a Mineral Stone, 
like the Mineral of Iron; when they fill the Hole with Wood 
and keep as hot a fire as they can there for 2 or 3 days, till they 
think it fufficiently heated ; then they pour- in water till they 
havequenchtit, which eilfo flakes and mollifies both Stone and 
Mineral I both being cold, they dig again, take out all the 
crumbled fluff and dig up what they can befides, before they 
heat it anew; the crufl fcldom is thicker than 3 or 4 foot, which 
ceafing^they come to a vein of Earth,tliat ufually runs under the 
Rock 2 or 3 furlongs ; fometimes much further : This they-dig 
all out and fearch , and if their firfl attempt prove fuccefsf4il, 
they go to work again (digging after the fame manner) as deep 
as they can, till they come to water; for the drawing whercofj 
wanting the help of Engins , knDwn in Europe , they can go no 
decper,alihough theVein lie lower^al l lumps of the Mineral they 
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