424 Dr. Dawson on the recent 



are low, and the distance between them, adding the portion which 

 runs parallel to the shore of Wine Harbor, is about 1 J miles. 



" The local surveyor has staked out on the surface the strike of 

 the vein, and along its whole length, at intervals, where it has been 

 prospected, gold has been found. The surface is much covered 

 with stones and boulders, consisting of whin of all hues 

 from white to blue, slaty rocks, and large boulders of 

 gray granite, showing in general a considerable quantity 

 of mica. Under those is soil and undulated hard whin, 

 interspersed with slaty rock of various degrees of hardness and in 

 some instances resembling sandstone. At the diggings the whin 

 rocJc, where laid bare, runs south 63° east : close to the side of 

 this occur the quartz veins which are nearly vertical, but irregular 

 and broken ; the thickness being from a line to one, two, and 

 three inches, with sometimes an irregular mass of quartz yielding 

 gold. On the other side of the quartz occurs the slaty formation, 

 of various degrees of hardness until it approaches nearly 

 the hardness of the whin. This slaty matter, as well as the quartz 

 veins, appear to be much disturbed, the slate however being verti- 

 cal, and the quartz, in many places, fractured and brittle, and of 

 all shades from white to deep black, although it is always accom- 

 panied by some of the white. Scarcely any of the diggers have 

 got beyond the depth which has been disturbed by the action of 

 the elements, and consequently have been able to get a good deal 

 of gold with very common tools, but, when they get deeper, the 

 vein, or rather the rocks enclosing it, become hard, and it will, in 

 my opinion, only yield a profitable result when pursued expen- 

 sively with the best appliances of practical science." 



It thus appears that gold has been found on the south-east 

 coast of Nova Scotia at points 130 miles distant from each other, 

 along the line of strike of the same formation, and there can be no 

 doubt that it will be found more or less abundantly throughout 

 the intermediate country, as well as in the extension of the forma- 

 tion beyond these limits. 



In the quartz at Wine Harbor and Indian Harbor arsenical 

 pyrites occurs in the same circumstances as at Tangier, of the de- 

 posits at which place these rocks may be considered as merely the 

 continuation eastward. 



Many reports have gained currency as to the discovery of gold, 

 in the more inland Upper Silurian metamorphic district of the 

 east and middle parts of Pictou, the Cobequid Mountains, &c. ; 



