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place for a trial. Higher np the rivers there are, however, places 

 more favourably situated for such explorations. 



IV. Quartz reefs in the Croghan Kinshelagh district, and other 

 favourable localities. It has already been pointed out that no 

 auriferous vein or lode has been found, the explorations only 

 having narrowed the limits of its possible occurrence. If one lode 

 or vein were proved auriferous, it would show to what system the 

 auriferous lodes belong, and remove the difficulty of concluding 

 whether they be auriferous continuously or only locally. 



For more detailed information on the Wicklow Gold Mines, see Philosophical Trans- 

 actions for 1796, and Royal Dublin Society's Transactions for 1800, 1801, 1802. Also 

 Geological Society's Transactions, Vol. V., and Philosophical Magazine, 1835; Kane's 

 Industrial Kesources of Ireland, Calvert's Gold Kocks of Great' Britain, Geological 

 Society of Ireland, Vol. IV., page 269, and Vol. I. (N.S. 1865), page 97, Quarterly 

 Journal of Science, Vol. XV., p. 189 ; also Mining Journal, Vol. X., p. 30 326 ; XL, p. 47, 

 213 ; XIX. p. 15 ; XXVI. p. 585, 653 ; XXXV. p. 472. 



