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A similar ill-fortune pursued the same party in 

 respect of another quartz deposit in the Mazoe 

 district, by name " The Golden Quarry." Here 

 the actual crushing, by a small three-stamp 

 battery, of t^venty tons of ore, gave the excellent 

 result of ninety-five ounces of gold. The " Golden 

 Quarry," however, was soon found to be no reef at 

 all, but only a " blow out," or, in other words, a 

 large bunch of quartz which would be rapidly 

 worked out. I should doubt whether, in the 

 history of gold -mining, two more attractive, more 

 deceiving, more disappointing reefs have ever been 

 found than these two which I have written about. 

 We visited also two other mines, the " Warrigal " 

 and the " Mary Pioneer," which at a depth of 

 thirty feet are of a good width and reported to be 

 of good quality, but of these reefs no assays have 

 yet been made on which reliance can be placed. 

 We returned to Fort Salisbury in the evening, 

 thoroughly fatigued by riding for some hours and 

 by jolting in a Cape cart for more hours on a very 

 hot day, but having accomplished an enjoyable and 

 instructive expedition. 



On Tuesday, the 20th of October, in the after- 

 noon, I said good-bye to Fort Salisbury. Two 

 months and a week had elapsed since I arrived 

 there. My recollections of the place will be very 

 pleasant and lasting. They will he recollections of 

 good friends, of new and agreeable acquaintances, 

 of a promising community, of a healthy, bright, 

 and breezy locality, of quickly fleeting hours of 

 amusement, of constant and varying interest. 



