The Camp Fault again Lead Ore 



from which we had a fine view of White Mountain. 

 The surface of the plateau consisted of bare limestone 

 clints, but the line of the gulley up which we had climbed 

 was continued for miles across country as a lane of 

 greensward with many beautiful ferns. 



With much labour a tent was brought up from below, 

 and we established ourselves in the upper part of the 

 gulley in a sheltered nook, and then sent down for picks 

 and shovels, determined to investigate the cause of the 

 gulley, and of the grassy lane above. To this investiga- 

 tion we were instigated by the discovery near the tent 

 of several large fragments of galena. 



Doubtless the vertical face behind the moss-clad 

 scree at the head of the gulley would be the easiest to 

 attack, but as we had already had a somewhat unpleasant 

 experience of these screes when disturbed, we decided to 

 sink a pit on the line of the lane. 



At the end of the first day's work we had a hole 

 6 feet square and 8 feet deep, and had passed through 

 3 feet of rich reddish brown soil, and 5 feet of angular 

 gravel, consisting of small pieces of limestone, masses 

 of white, and pink, and yellow calcite, and some small 

 cubes of galena. The bottom of the gravel had not 

 been reached, and as the labour of throwing out the 

 material increased rapidly with increase of depth, and 

 as the sides of the pit showed an inclination to collapse, 

 we stopped the work until such time as we could 

 obtain some hoisting tackle from the launch, and cut 

 down some pine trees to serve as a lining for our 

 shaft. 



This cutting down of the trees and sawing them 

 into lengths occupied the men for several days, during 



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