64 IN THE ACADIAN LAND. 



foot is often found distributed over wide ranges 

 of country. But to find gold, brought together 

 by natural operations in sufficient quantities to 

 mine it with profit, is the difficult point. To 

 find gold iii rocks or gravel is not a matter 

 requiring much effort. So far as we know, all 

 the gold that man has obtained in Nova Scotia 

 has either been mined out of a quartz vein or 

 washed out of gravel containing gold that has 

 been broken out of veins and washed into the 

 surface by natural agencies; and apparently 

 this is true over all the earth. 



Let us first get a clear idea of a mineral vein 

 or lead. If the rocks of all this region were 

 completely stripped of the covering of gravel, 

 sand, mud and clay, and laid clean and naked 

 to view, we would see long broken ledges in 

 upturned positions, running easterly and west- 

 erly sometimes the layers would be standing 

 on edge, quite perpendicular, and in that case 

 they would be found to slant or " dip " or in- 

 cline, gradually increasing the slant with the 

 distance on both sides of the perpendicular and 

 in opposite directions. If you will set a book 

 on its edge, and then lean against it, on each 

 side, other books, bracing against the central 

 one and supporting it in place, you will then 

 have the position of the rocks, only the books 



