The South African Diamond Fields

The diimonda oí South África .are foliad over uiauy hundred square miles of tsrritory. Tiiey ure mostly imbedded iu tnrrugmous gravel, and are found at dcpths varying from two lo twcnty feet below the surfaoe, the usual depth being from two to six feet. ín working tlie mines a Ólftiva oí piece of ground thirty feot squarj oocupiod by tvo diggers, assisted by their black servants. They remove thn loóse blooks of stone, take np the gravel, si ft it thoroiigbly, either iu a dry etnlo rr with übmulance of water, in a eiere roóked by a eradle. Wh?n tho pebblcs have thus bern peparated from the sand, thcy are oleanea and placed upon tbc sorting tiiblo, to be caretully examined for the diamond that may be among them.