THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



March 7, 1855. 



The following Communications were read : — 



I. On the Gold-fields o/Ballarat, Eureka, and Creswick 

 Creek, Victoria. By M. Henrique Rosales. 



[Communicated by W. W. Smyth, Esq., F.G.S.] 



During the voyage to Australia I carefully studied the Government 

 Reports on the gold-fields ; and on my arrival I was greatly disap- 

 pointed to find that the same regulations were still in force, which 

 entirely precluded the establishment of a regular gold-wash work. 

 I had five men, miners and others, bound to me for two or three 

 years ; and all that remained for me to do was to follow the example 

 of others, and try my luck in the gold- lottery, for success under the 

 present system of claims is a mere chance. 



We first entered the gold-field of Eureka ; but finding that, from 

 the exhaustion of the shallow works, there was only deep- sinking, we 

 proceeded to Creswick Creek, about twelve miles north of Ballarat, 

 where between November and March I have sunk many a hole, some 

 of which proved blanks, others were too poor to pay. 



Ballarat"^, Eureka, and Creswick Creek, although not one gold- 



* [See also Mr. Wathen's paper on the Victoria Gold-fields, Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. vol. ix. p. 74 ; and Mr. Selwyn on Mount Alexander District, ibid. vol. x. 

 p. 299.] 



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