The Coming Colony. 423 



by the late Mr. Charles Moore, F.G.S., by Dr. J. W. Gregory, F.G.S., 

 and Mr. G. C. Crick, F.G.S. 



The author describes briefly the aspect of mineral veins, and 

 gives four illustrations of their appearance. He then devotes two 

 pages and two diagrams in order to explain why, in certain areas, 

 spring water may be obtained by boring, whilst in others it is 

 hopeless to expect to obtain an artesian supply of water. The area 

 occupied by each formation is then briefly noticed. 



This is followed (pp. 34-55) by a short description of the minerals 

 of commercial value which have been found, or are likely to be met 

 with, in the colony, and the common tests by which such minerals 

 may be recognised. 



The metallic minerals are first described, and then the non- 

 metallic ; and under each is given their occurrence and uses. 

 To this follows the account of the gold-fields of the colony 

 (pp. 56-78). The return given by the Customs of the export of 

 gold in the last seven years shows a value of £952,182, rising 

 from £1,207 in 1886 to £421,385 in 1893. 



This return is only the amount declared at the Customs, and is 

 far below the actual export, which cannot be correctly ascertained. 

 Most old miners are silent as to their actual gains. 



The author then gives a description of other mineral deposits, as 

 Copper-Lead, Copper, Tin, Coal, Iron and Antimony, Zinc, Manganese 

 Graphite, etc. Much general information follows as to the means 

 of reaching the various gold-fields, and the necessary outfit ; 

 licenses to mine ; means of shipping ; a glossary of terms in use 

 by miners, etc. 



No one need complain of the quantity of information contained in 

 this little work of 126 pages, which is certain to prove of great 

 service to the many whom it is intended to assist. 



4. It must require a man as courageous as the " Bold Buccleuch " 

 to undertake the post of Government Geologist for Western Australia, 

 and to map an area of 976,000 square miles, being about nine 

 times the size of the United Kingdom. We can well understand 

 Mr. H. P. Woodward when he writes that since 1887 (a period 

 of seven years) he has spent most of his time in travelling about this 

 vast territory, and in examining and reporting upon the mineral 

 resources of the colony generally. 



Prior to Mr. Woodward's appointment in 1887, small portions of 

 the colony had been examined between the years 1847 and 1851, by 

 Dr. F. von Sommer ; and prior to 1860, by Messrs. A. C and F. T. 

 Gregory (who published a geological map, in London, of a part of the 

 colony in 1860). Mr. Hy. Y. Lyell Brown, F.G.S., made a geological 

 examination of a part of the colony in 1870-71, mapping a strip 

 of country from the Murchison Eiver to the south coast. In 1882 

 Mr. E. T. Hardman reported on the Kimberley District, and indicated 

 the existence of extensive gold areas in the north-west, which have 

 since yielded a considerable amount of the precious metal. 



The Map which the Government Geologist has just completed, 

 and which has been carefully engraved and reproduced in chrome- 



