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9. Gold of Australia.—We cite the following from a pamphlet on 
the Australian gold by Rev. W. B. Clarke, for which we are indebted 
to its author. The particular locality where gold was first discovered 
in 1851, was at the junction of Summer Hill creek with the Macquarie, 
33.miles west of Bathurst and about 170 miles west of Sydney.* 
and from the result of those inquiries, conducted on scientific princi- 
ples, and backed by occasional additional proofs, it was openly declared, 
that gold exists in ‘considerable abundance” in our “ schists ant 
former had spoken, so late as 1849, to the Ministers of England, upon 
the subject of gold in Australia, all the encouragement he received ‘was 
in being told not to let them ‘ have too much of a good thing. 
It is not necessary now to detail the careful processes by which 
but who had been 
Lamk., from the Dead Sea. It is not mentioned whether this coral oc- 
curred where the water is supersaturated with salt, or only in the estua- 
Ties of rivers, es 
The following account given by Mr. Monk (son of the cehdapes 
Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol,) of his feelings on pees: A 
on taking leave of the shores of the Dead Sea, deserves special nouc - 
Not only because it appears true to nature, but use it onggers 
* The remark ci y. Mr. Clarke, on p. 119, of this volume, should read 
«000 ee Tat Cite ape ere” instend of “00° west of the Urala” = 
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