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to investigate or look after gold in Cornwall. He thought Mr. 

 Collins would agree that they had the proper geological condi- 

 tions for gold in Cornwall. But it required very careful 

 investigation and the aid of the assayer to determine whether 

 gold was contained or not. Silver occurred in large quantities 

 at Dolcoath and in other instances. At North Dolcoath he had 

 seen it occur. Yet they had never in Cornwall made any special 

 exertions, or done anything very much beyond the ordinary 

 routine of districts in which copper and tin occurred. He 

 thought Cornishmen would be perfectly justified in going further 

 than that, and of seeing just what their own county was capable 

 of doing. He took this opportunity of referring to the matter 

 purely from love of the old county. 



