398 O. C. Marsh on the Gold of Nova Scotia. 
deep caverns which have been worn in the bluff by the action of 
the sea. It is this denuding power which has torn the go 
from its bed and collected it on the beach. There is some reason 
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of this substance in the sand on the beach, makes t 
ned, 
judge the value of the gold fields, since they have in most cases 
en explored by those who have had no previous experience in 
* While at Lunenburg I was informed of a circumstance connected with the dis- 
covery of the gold which illustrates the utility of even a little scientific knowledg® 
and the of its more general diffusion, Some years since a farmer, living 
his means, ie 
yi . In his excavations he had cut through a large kei 
vein richly stored with gold, which he had noticed, but supposed to be merely CoP” 
pyrites. The : 
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