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The Diamond-Fields.
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the two other districts were distinguished as “true river-stones.”

SQUARE IN DUTOITSPAN.
SQUARE IN DUTOITSPAN.

SQUARE IN DUTOITSPAN.

The second, and hitherto the most important diamond-field, is that which I have called the central-diggings; they are what formerly were understood by the dry-diggings. They include the four mines in the Kimberley district, and form two separate groups, the north-western containing Kimberley, and Old de Beers adjoining it on the east, and the eastern group containing Dutoitspan, with Bultfontein closing it in on the south and west. This eastern group lies about two miles from Kimberley,