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influx of water, rendering the extraction of it difficult and too expensive, 
the working was abandoned. 
* One or two other small pits were also dug in a north-west 
direction (north of the stream) at a few miles distance. But these 
were said to have been comparatively unproductive. They also were 
filled with water at the time of my visit. | 
“Twas able to procure only small and poor specimens of the ore, 
scarcely sufficient even to indicate its character: enough, however, to 
show that it was the green carbonate of copper ; and one or two specimens, 
though small, exhibit the usual appearance of malachite, tolerably massive 
and botryoidalin structure. There is, I think, reason to suppose that 
at least in small quantity, the ore continues for some distance in 
a south-south-easterly direction, as I traced the hornblende-schists 
in this direction, and containing, at the distance of three quarters 
to one mile from the most southerly pit, green carbonate of copper 
in small quantities: Here it occurs chiefly in thin lamine, or 
in a semi-crystalline powdery form between the lamine or beds 
of the hornblende-schists, also disseminated in small but harder pieces 
in quartzose bands in the schists ; it would seem to be continuous so far 
along the strike of the beds, which is here about north-north-west, 
vertical or rolling over at very high angles. 
“ [n hornblende-schists on a tank-bund west of Calegherry, very 
nearly in the direction of the strike of these beds, I found traces of 
the same green carbonate, occurring in similar form, both as a semi- 
crystalline powdery incrustation and in a more massive shape as tolerably 
compact malachite. I could not, however, trace thése small specimens 
to their locality, though the stone was said to be thrown up from the 
bed of the tank. 
* [n somewhat similar hornblende-schists close by, exposed in 
bowries, &e., I could detect no trace of the metal, nor could I find any 
occurrence of ore, as a connecting link between this and Gunnypenta, 
| GOT) 
