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[How the gold is taken up in the river; Negroland] [graphic].
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Title
[How the gold is taken up in the river; Negroland] [graphic].
Publisher
[London: s.n]
Publisher
ENG. London. 1670
Date
[1670]
Physical Description
1 print: wood engraving; image 13 x 16 cm. (5 x 6.25 in)
Description
The engraving shows residents of Negroland diving for gold, it accompanies the following passage in Ogilby's text: "In some places, especially at the plentiful Gold-River Atzine, under the Cliffs and Water-falls, shooting down from the Mountains, Gold is taken up, in this manner: They Dive with a hollow Woodden Tray to the bottom, and rake there among the Earth, Stones, and all that they can come at; with which having filled their Dishes, they come up above Water, and washing the Mass, find the Gold; for sometimes whole pieces are wash't down by force of the Water, through the Gold-Veins; whereof the King of Egwira hath a great many, which he keeps for his Fancy, ascribing a secret Power and Vertue to it." (p. 448)
Is part of
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676. Africa. London: Printed by Tho. Johnson, for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M.DC.LXX (1670).
Notes
Illustration in John Ogilby's Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid: the Land of Negroes, Guinee, and Aethiopia, and Abyssines, with all the Adjacent Islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, Belonging Thereunto (London: Printed by Tho. Johnson, for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M.DC.LXX [1670]), p. 449.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Genre
Engravings -- 1660-1670.
Book illustrations -- 1660-1670.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | *Wing O163 14.F p 449
Accession number
14.F
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