Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
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ng to the miners—giving, for example, lists offinds, with the names of the lucky finders. It is curious that the term diamondiferous has, in these localities, come to be used as a generalterm denoting excellence of any kind. Thus, when it is desired to apply 704 GOLD AND DIAMONDS. an epithet of… … Fig. 334.—The Vaal River, frotn Spence Kopje {c. 1870). It will be seen that the early diamond-seekers at the Cape followedvery primitive methods, by simply washing in sieves the gravel and sandshovelled out of the river banks ; and indeed, it was only when, about 1871,they began to dig deeper that…
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