EARLY ANNOUNCEMENT OF DIAMONDS IN CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (DIAMONDS.)

Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of the Cape of Good Hope. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 17 August, 1871. Folding map. viii, 200 pages. Bound with Correspondence Relating to Griqua-Land West in Continuation of Papers Presented to Parliament by Command of Her Majesty March 1873, Presented to... Parliament... August 6, 1875. [2], 22 pages. 4to, modern stiff wrappers; bookplate on title of first work. London, 1871; 1876 The first work contains a letter by Lieutenant-Governor Hay of the Cape Colony to Earl Granville with official announcement of diamonds along the Orange and Vaal Rivers. Following are several entries concerning diamond discovery and territories. The second work concerns boundary questions between the Orange Free State and the Diamond Fields.