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in 1622, that the Crawford Moor gold was above seventy two carats fine, so that it has to be presumed he had access to some assay. Of individual specimens from this district one is mentioned as weighing thirty ounces, or two pounds and a half.* The Earl of Hopetoun had one weighing an ounce and a half or two ounces.** Boyle mentions nuggets severally of eight pennyweights nine grains, three pennyweights twenty-one grains, and three pennyweights three grains.*** Mr Atkinson however, mentions six ounces and five ounces. The largest nuggets now got weigh about two sovereigns, but they are rare." (P.167. 168)(On the gold rocks of Great Britain and Ireland by John Calvert of Australia, Mineral Surveyor 1853.)

* Pennant's Wales Vol 1. P.90. Cottonian No. S.S.E.10.
** Pennant's Wales Vol 1.P.90 Scotland Delineated, 1791.
*** Boyle's Works, Vol.5. P.30.

The most remarkable document as to the Crawford Moor mines is unfortunately only a fragment , and causes with regret the want of the whole document, which is evidently drawn up with great minuteness. Who is the author is not stated; but from internal evidence he must be one of the parties connected with Sir Bevis Bulmer's enterprise, and most probably that gentleman, unless it was one of Cornelius De Vos's colleagues, the date is perhaps from 1578 to 1600. It is in the Cottonian M.S.S., and marked .... Ex, being the burnt remains of a manuscript on the Crawford Moor Mines. It is seemingly headed 12 as if part of a longer treatise; and another part is numbered 13??