of Mallimdly in the Mustaphanagur drear, 73 
and, when washed, consisting of fine sandy particles, with but 
little intermixture of clay. 
No. % Strata 6 feet from the surface, is a dirty yellowish clay 
without mixture, very greedy of water after being dried, in 
which it breaks down suddenly in flakes, emitting globules of air 
with a slight noise. 
No. 3. Strata 12 feet from the surface, is white calcareous mat- 
ter in large lumps, interspersed with rounded ironstones, smooth 
on the surface, some of a metallic colour internally, of different 
hardness, and some small pieces of quartz covered with yellow- 
ish clay. 
No. 4. Strata 24 feet from the surface, is small pieces of white 
calcareous matter, interspersed with worn quartz, tophous iron- 
stone, and whitish fat clay. 
No. 5. Strata 30 feet from the surface, where water appears, 
is fat white clay, falling suddenly in \yater, after drying, when 
it becomes yellowish ; apparently some admixture of ochre. 
No. 0. Strata 36 feet from the surface, where the diamond is 
found, consists of small heavy worn ironstones of various shades, 
of red, yellow, and metallic colour^ approaching the hardness of 
jasper ; some pieces of white calcareous matter, rather harder 
than chalk, but principally a mixture of soil, consisting of calca- 
reous matter, quartzose sand and yellow ochre. 
No. 7. Specimens of the stones, &c. amongst which the dia- 
monds are found after being washed from the earth. These 
consist of pieces of fat worn quartz, tophous ironstone, white 
calcareous earth, red bole, light yellow ochre, and pieces of the 
fat white clay No. 5. 
No. 8. The earth which is mixed with the stones No. 7. and 
where the diamonds are found, which differs only from the se- 
diment (f) of the former account, in some pieces of the stones 
No. 6. about the size of peas still remaining in it. 
