70 GILPIN ON NOVA SCOTIA GOLD VEINS. 



and dimensions of the pay streaks. As yet no mining company has gone to any expense 

 in testing the question ; the only steps in this direction are the observations that in some 

 districts the varions pay streaks have occurred along a very limited horizon of the beds, as 

 if at that point of time, in the original deposition, the gold had been introduced more 

 plentifully, and over an extended area, and that in other districts the best paying ground 

 lies in blocks, not on the same line, but to the right or left of an axial line running 

 longitudinally through the district. 



