'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎140] (459/1024)

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Trdveh in India.
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PaftlJ.
and fomc others adjoining, above eight thoufand perfons, men
children, that are able to work. They that are skilful know by the lard 11 ^
ther there be any Diamonds of no, when they find among the fand l>i
Stones like to thofe which we call. Thunder-Stones. They begin to mo| f# ,r ltt ,
in the River from the Town of Soumtlpbur to the very Mduntaihs from wlf ^
the River falls, for fifty Leagues together. nence
Where they believe there are Diamonds, they encompafs the nW
4 kei, Faggots, and Ear r ^ whpti SJ — ti- Wl th
^fidg to drain all the v
Sand for two foot debj 3 ,
for that purpofe prepar’d x . „ .......
little Wall about i foot and half high.
is much Sand as they think cbhveniSht; ........ . r .
i&M doiii S & things as Mf dd at the Miiies which I have already def.
From this Rirtf cothe all flidfe Point! Which are tail’d hatursl Priin*
but a great Stbiie is feWoih found here,, The reafon why none of thefe Si
have Seen feen in Europe, is becauie of the Wars, that have hinder’d the rcS
from working. uiepc 0 pi e
Befides the Dianidhd Mine which I have fpokeh of in the ProviW
Ctrr.mca, which MirgimoU caus’d to be fet up, by reafon of the yellownefi
of the Diamonds, and the foulnefs of the Stones; there is in the Ifland JsR
r.eo the largeft Ifland in the World, another River call’d Sua-ad™
Sand whereof they find Diamonds as hard as any in the other Mines th!
principal reafon that diflwaded me from going to the Ifland of Borneo was
becaufe I underflood that the Queen of the Ifland would not nermir^™
Strangers to carry away any of thofe Diamonds out of the Ifland. Thofe few
that are exported, being carry’d out by Health, aiid pfivatfcly fold at Rattiil
I fay the Queen, and not the King, becaufe in that Ifland thc wl^ h™
the Soveraign Command, and not the Men. For the people are fo curious to
Save a lawful Heir upon the Throne, that the Husband not being cerrin
that the Children tehich he has by Ms Wife are his own- but the U&MwJS
always certain that the Children which fhe bears are hers’, they rather chool
£ b ®S° v f™ d by a Won)a% » whom they give the Title of Queen "Ter
Nnsbitnd being only fief Subjtsft, and having no power but what flie pertiiits
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CHAP. XIV.
■ , , 7 ' ' '~ r " ‘ "■ - 4 / ' “ '* -v *: * ' *• *V i t.l-ij 1 ' ill nfi i \ \ Qj V &IS
Oflhejiverfity of Weights mJ at the Diamond Mines. Of the Piecestf
Goid and Silver there Currant -, and the Rule which they ol ferve U km
the Trice of Diamonds. ,
A T the Mine oi Raolcond* they weigh by Mangelins* a Mangelin being
one Carat and three quarters, that is feven Grains,
j ^e Mine cAGani or Coulour they ufe the fame weights.
• •‘^, of s c mm f l P 0ltr in Btng«U, they weigh by Rati’s, and the Rati
to feven eighths of a Carat, or three Grains and a half. They ufe the fame
Weights over all the Empire of the Mogul. 3
WoM ^■ 0m l °r Go ^ con ^ a an d PifapoHr, they make ufe of Mangelins j
buta Mangehn m thofepartsis not above one Carat and three eighths the
* D “i® 1 i’iy^in Bengal*, in the Territories of the
^ ln [ eg l rd thc y 1 > re en t lo s’d within the Dominions of the
Great Mogul, they make their payments fa Roupies.
* At