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which then they did not prize as fuch ; for fome of tlte 
Miners kept feveral Stones for their Figure and Curi- 
ofity, which Stones (though fo valuable) by Length of 
Time they negleded and loft, and did the fame till 
the Year 17x8, at which Time one of the Miners 
lately coming to work there, and better acquainted, 
deemed them to be Diamonds, made Experiments up- 
on them, and finding them really fo, began to feekfor 
them in the fame Ground and Sand, where the former 
Miners had ignorantly left them, fo did the reft of the 
People follow his Example. 
After they had thoroughly examined the Places 
aforefaid, they began to fearch for them in the River 
itfelf, and do actually find Diamonds there, but with 
more Trouble and Difficulty ; for in the former 
Places they found them together among the Earth 
and Sand, as they lay ; but in the River, as the Sand 
is more difperfed, they lie farther from one another. 
Experience and common Reafon teaches the People 
there, that thefe Diamonds came from another Place 
by the Current of the Waters, and are not the natural 
Product of the Situation where they now are found. 
They are ufing all poflible Diligence to find out the 
Place where they grow. They have not yet difcover- 
ed it ; but their great Hopes are very much encoura- 
ged upon the Account of having near the faid Situati- 
on feveral Mountains, where nothing is to be feen but 
fine folid Chryftal Rocks. 
The Diamonds that have been found, are common- 
ly from one Grain to fix Carrats, fome larger, and 
among thefe one of forty-five Carrats. The Colour, 
Solidity, and reft of their Properties are the fame as 
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