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with in such cases are blacks, pinks, reds, yellows, greens, 

 browns, and the whites of milky quartz. 



Inclusions, both solid and liquid, are frequent. Some 

 layers, richer in inclusions than others, occur in the same 

 crystal. It is also possible to find different layers with 

 different types of inclusions. Thus in one layer you may find 

 small dark specks of iron, the next may have liquid inclu- 

 sions or perhaps not any, and the next layer may be rich in 

 coloured particles giving a distinct colour to the layer. 



Some fine examples of milky quartz, alternating with 

 the transparent glassy variety, perhaps in six or eight altern- 

 ating layers in the same crystal, are found lying about on 

 the slopes of the mountain. 



Another novel feature is the way most of the quartz 

 breaks up on hitting. The individual crystals separate out 

 with the pyramid termination at one end and a sharp point 

 at the other which commences from the base of the pyramid 

 faces, such pieces reminding one of single teeth of some 

 animals. Many of the pyramid faces have warted develop- 

 ments on them. Some crystal faces are completely covered 

 with these rough nodular elevations. 



Continuing easterly, along Radium Ridge, instead of 

 turning south to Mount Gee, we come to a creek on the 

 remote side of which Mount Painter is situated. 



This mountain, which is roughly four miles around the 

 base and 1,000 ft. at its highest point above the creek, con- 

 sists almost entirely of the crushed and ironstone rocks. Stiff 

 climbing over boulder and rock-strewn flanks and up steep 

 cliff faces and scrambling over screes, reveals on a grand scale 

 the excessive crushing, with subsequent cementation, that the 

 area has been subjected to. Great caves and hollows, 

 weathered out of the less-resisting material of some of the 

 cliffs, reveal great faces of country rock and crushed zones 

 with the bands and cavities of quartz of different varieties. 

 At the very summit of the mountain a band of amethystine 

 quartz runs through the ironstone rock. The two highest 

 points of the mountain are outcrops of ironstone-cemented 

 crushed zones. 



Many varieties of quartz are to be met with on the 

 flanks and lower hills of this mountain ; for example, sardonyx, 

 amethystine-quartz, jasper, chalcedony, coloured quartz cry- 

 stals, quartz formations of various shapes, and all more or 

 less coloured. 



Passing north-easterly from Mount Painter we traverse 

 some four miles of granite country, all more or less inter- 

 sected with the iron-and-quartz-cemented zones, and it is 



