310 NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF BEDFORD, ETC.—HARE. 
argillites appear to be much finer and of a brighter blue than 
farther away. 
North of Wright’s lake the strike of the gneissoid strata is 
north 80° east. At English’s corner five or six miles east, the 
strike is N. 75° E. South-east of Pockwock lake there is a 
vein of quartz, about four feet and a half wide; here, some 
years ago, there was a shaft sunk about one hundred and eighty 
feet deep, in the hope of finding gold, without success. 
By pacing the gneissoid rocks I found that they were a mile 
and a half wide. On account of the quantity of snow in the 
woods, which obscured them, I could not find out how much 
farther they extended. 
Along the strike the gneissoid rocks extend from Pockwock 
lake about seven miles to the eastward. They may continue a 
long distance either east or west, but on account of the snow it 
was impossible to follow them. 
I found a great many quartz veins which were cross leads ; 
most of them were over four inches thick. 
There is said to be gold in Hammond’s Plains, but not in pay- 
ing quantities. Thousands of dollars have been spent in sinking 
shafts, and although I took a great deal of trouble to find out 
what quantity of gold had been taken out, I did not succeed. 
On the hill to the south-east of English’s corner, I found a 
small vein of granite where they had been prospecting for gold ; 
it contains a great quantity of mica of a gold colowr in curiously 
wrinkled masses; it also contains black tourmaline. 
The gneissoid strata are all vertical and very regular ; breaks 
being very scarce. 
The essential minerals which I found in the gneissoid strata 
are quartz, sometimes there is a little mica and feldspar. 
The accidental minerals which I discovered were black tour- 
maline, pyrite and andalusite. 
(b). CAMBRIAN. 
Argillites—The argillites come in about a quarter of a mile 
above the road to Hammond’s Plains and near the gneissoid strata. 
They are finer and of a brighter blue than they appear farther 
