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date of its discovery) to 30tli September, 1871, lias sent to Sydney- 

 Mint 182,061 ounces of gold, of the value of £723,642. 



The richest mines yet opened are those known as Krohmann's Co. 

 and Beyers and Holterman's Co. A statement of results of less than 

 a year's work furnished by these Companies is very remarkable : — 



Krohmann's Co. Beyers and Holterman's Co. 



Stone crushed, about 446 tons: pro- Stone crushed, 415 tons : produce 

 duced 24,079 ozs. Nett proceeds as 16,279 ozs. Nett proceeds as per 



per Mint returns, £93,616 16s. M. Mint returns, £63,234 12s. Qd. 



Coming, as these statements do to us, autJwritatively from the 

 Colonial Government of New South "Wales, we cannot for a moment 

 doubt their authenticity, nor can we but believe that a grand future 

 lies before this Colony. Although but of small extent, New South 

 Wales possesses a coal-field of its own, 34,720 acres being under 

 lease for mining, with 2,150 pits. In 1871 the export of coal 

 amounted to 565,429 tons, of the value of £256,690. With gold, 

 coal, kerosene, iron, copper, tin, silver, lead, cinnabar, diamonds, 

 excellent wheat-lands, pasturage, water, and timber, with a genial 

 climate, and freedom from taxation ! even the goodly land of Canaan 

 could hardly have surpassed " The Queen of the Pacific," as her 

 children (now happily freed from the injurious influence of the old 

 convict system) may justly and proudly call her.^ 



Geological Eesorts and Localities for Fossils around 

 London. — The Londoner lives amidst geological scenes and memo- 

 rials of remarkable variety. Our environs are rich in traces of 

 former physical geography and past zoological worlds. In the 

 Saturday afternoon excursions which are now so regularly organized 

 for poj)ularizing geology, the wonderful history of the ground 

 beneath us, as revealed in 



Scarped cliff and quarried stone, 

 are delighting and instructing crowds of the newer generation of 

 Londoners. The old rivers and seas which at successive pre-historic 

 periods occupied the site of London and its vicinity, although they 

 have long since receded or entirely disappeared, have left natural 

 maps of themselves in the ground beneath us. They have left 

 behind them their beds of mud or gravel to commemorate their 

 former existence. It is these old sea-beds and river-gravels that 

 now form the solid ground on which we are living, and hence it is 

 that we find in them the shells and other remains which are known 

 as fossils. Around London are numerous spots where we can descend 

 into these old sea and river-beds, and see for ourselves the imbedded 

 fossils. A list of these open sections is given in the " Saturday 

 Half-Holiday Guide," edited by Henry Walker, F.G.S. (Kent & Co., 

 Paternoster Eow, and the Saturday Half-Holiday Committee, 100, 

 Fleet Street, price 3d.), together with a Map embracing an area of 

 25 miles round London, and 48 pp. of general information relating 

 to routes, places, scenery, historical, archaeological, zoological, geolo- 

 gical, botanical, and other matters interesting to every one having a 

 Half-Holiday. 



1 Statistics of New South "Wales, printed for the Government, accompanied by 

 Maps of the Agricultural, Mining, and other resources of the Colony. (London : 

 Trubner & Co.) 



