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siderable distance to Mud Lake, underneath and across whicli thej- were 

 preparing to tunnel. 



Returning a short distance, and then proceeding onward southward of this 

 small lake, by a road passable with care for a carriage, the shafts sunk by the 

 German Companies, (so called,) and successfully worked, are seen. This 

 part of the village of Waverly has been named Germantown ; and some 

 distance further on, the building containing the Crushei's, and other processes 

 for extracting the gold, come into view. The superintendent of this, 

 establishment, L. Burkxer, Esq., and another gentleman connected therewith,, 

 very obligingly accompanied the party, and explained practically the various 

 processes . of crushing the quartz and washing it, and amalgamating and 

 retorting the gold. A large quantity of quartz, in lumps weighing from one 

 to thirty pounds, in nearly all of which gold was conspicuous, lay around, 

 ready for the crushers. The quartz then being worked was white, but with 

 a perceptible and peculiar blush tinge. It occui's in veins of six inches thick, 

 more or less, the gold disseminated throughout in small grains, which the 

 miners designate as " sights." Galena frequently occurs in the quartz, and it 

 has been remai-ked here, that the gold appears to be more plentiful Avhen in 

 contact with It. This was said to be contrary to the experience at Hammond 

 Plains, a few miles west of this locality, where zinc blende is more prevalent, 

 and with reference to the yield of gold appeared to take the place of the 

 galena. Mr. Burkner, in the most courteous manner, selected a handsome 

 specimen of auriferous quartz from the heap, and presented it to the Presi- 

 dent for the Museum of the Institute., There were sixteen stampers at work, 

 and more were to be added. The party were hardly prepared for the 

 extensive operations they witnessed, and were deeply impressed with the 

 industrial occupation of gold mining, and its importance as an aid to the pro- 

 gress of the country. It is chiefly from the. works of this Company that every 

 now and then an ingot of pure gold, as large and thick as a stock brick, 

 delights the eyes of the people of Halifax, and convinces them that Nova 

 Scotia is able to maintain its place among the gold producing regions of the 

 earth. The last ingot brought Into Halifax, ^vas worth $80,000 and was the 

 product of a month's labour of the operatives of the Company. 



After resting awhile at the office of the obliging superintendent, the party 

 left the Mines, and were conveyed to Marshall's Inn, where they sat down, 

 in number fourteen, to a substantial repast. When this had been fairly dis- 

 cussed, the President called upon the Members present to communicate the 

 result of their observations, and an Interesting desultory conversation ensued. 

 The Secretary then asked permission to read a paper entrusted to him by 

 Colonel Sinclair, a member of the Institute, who had been unable to attend, 

 on the subject of the " barrel quartz" formation, before alluded to, which is 

 as follows : — 



THE COXTORTBD QUARTZ LODE AT LAinL.A.W'S " DIGGIXS," WAVERLY. 



This extraordinary quartz lode concliisively proves that it and similar 

 formatloni? were once in a molten and plastic state. 



