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Wellington, got about 40/. worth of gold, at Sheepston, and Mr. Calvert 
had obtained gold from the granite by this process. In the West Som- 
of Queen Elizabeth’s time, the diggers relied on keele, a reddish earth, 
as an indication of gold, and the miners do now. He had seen it also 
He found gold in the Lowther Burn, Long and Short Cleuch Burns, 
Mannock Water, Kepple Burd, Glengomar, Elvanwater, Goldscour, and 
other places. At Wanlockhead he saw gold in the midst of the town. 
At one place the miners, two years ago, got gold, which at Glasgow 
landshire. The Wicklow diggings were only shortly referred to. It 
appeared, by returns obtained from the Dublin goldsmiths, that the pres- 
ent su f the peasantry was about 2,000/, a year. In Ulster the 
gold in these islands was now about 5,000/. a yea 
largely increased. The number of gold bearing streams known was 
one hundred. Gold had been found in nearly all the clay-slate districts. 
Many of these were worked in the Middle Ages, and probably also by 
