. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Ichap. 17- Coaps tf/South-Guinea. ni;ntion'd arc carried yearly from tlie Gold Coajl, and the prodigious wiiich al- ways remains in thehnnils of the Blacks; it is way to believe,asIdo, notwitiillandingthe Eenersl receiv'ii opinion to the contrary, that up the it be gathered
. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Ichap. 17- Coaps tf/South-Guinea. ni;ntion'd arc carried yearly from tlie Gold Coajl, and the prodigious wiiich al- ways remains in thehnnils of the Blacks; it is way to believe,asIdo, notwitiillandingthe Eenersl receiv'ii opinion to the contrary, that up the it be gathered out of mines, tho perhaps they have not the Ikill of working them in perfeflion. Did that country belong to Europeans, they would undoubtedly lind it to produce much greater treal'ure than tiie Bucks draw from it 1 but it is not likely they fhould ever enjoy that liberty there, and mull therefore rfil witii wiiat they can get by of trade. ,â,t, I will not be too pofitive in this iilTertion, Ijl'iiick' as being only my own private conjedure â¢, («i«'''buton the othtT iiand, all thofe who are 11"'""'""'of [he contrary opinion have no better grounds for it than tiicir own notions. For r\o European has been lo far up the country, as to fee wliether the inland Hiach do not open and work their mines -, ,-ind we hear of very large pieces of gold, that are there in tiie iiands of particular iKTlons i as for inflance, the king of li^iiira, who the natives fay has at the door of his lioufc or palace, if we may lb call it, a lump of that rich metal, as big as an ordi- nary wine hoglhead, wiiich is confecrated and fet apart, as that monarch's deity, to which he afligns many hidden prerogatives and virtues: yet I can never believe, that luch a lump of gold, as that is reported to be, could ever be dug, or worked out from a mine as it is, but rather, that, if tiiere be any truth in the laid report, it murt have been made of melted
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