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rich in diamonds, and form the region which has been longest and most
successfully worked. Here "wet diggings" are carried on in the beds of
streams, laid bare by conducting the waters into
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new
channels by means of flumes. The work can only be carried on in the dry
season, as in the wet season the quantity of water in the rivers makes
them ungovernable, and sometimes even in the dry season it happens that
a miner has barely got the artificial way constructed
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