Capitolo 60
take with them pieces of meat" in which they throws this depth
valley. He reports that the eagles, when they sees these pieces of
meat, flights down and you find them, and when they returns, they establishes on
the tallest stones, when the men raise a cries, and you drive away them.
After the eagles have been driven so street, "the men recover the
pieces of meat, and it finds them full of diamonds to which are hammered
them. For the abundance of diamonds down in the depths", continuous
Pole of Mark, is naively "stupendous; but nobody can get down, and
if one was able, be be devour only incontinently
from the snakes that they are so common there." A further account proceeds
this way: "The diamonds are sprinkled so and they dispersed in the earth,
and it lies so thin, that is rare to in the most abundant mines
you find one in to dig;... they is frequently included in sod,...
some... has the earth so sheltered around theirs that grinds up to them
them on a raw stone with sand, they cannot sufficiently transport him/it
to discover them they are transparent or... to know them from other
stones. To the first opening of the mine, the labourers of unskilful
to try what they has found, set sometimes, them on a great stone,
and, striking them one with another, to their expensive experience,
discovers that they has broken a diamond.... They fills a cistern
with water, soaking therein as a lot of of their earth they dig out of
the mine as you/he/she can contain to a duration, while breaking the sod choosing,
out the great stones, and mixing him/it with shovels... then them
opens a hole, while leaving out the ugly water, and provides him/it with clean,
you cultivate the earthy substance is all washed away, and only the ghiaiato
one remains to the fund." A trial of sieving and to dry is then
described, and gravel is out every expansion to be examined, "them
you never examine their stuff you/they have washed but among the hours of
ten and three, so that not some cloud, inserting intercepts the active one
rays of the sun that they contains very necessary to assist them