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2. Extract from Report to the Colonial Secretary, dated Jindebine, County of 



Wallace, 2itk December, 1851 : — 



" I found tlie summits of tlie Muniong to be composed of coarse 

 syenitic granite, partly concretionary, mucli jointed, and rising in 

 denticulated masses and rounded bosses, so as to present, in con- 

 nection with the slopes of snow, the outline of a true Sierra 

 Nevada. 



" The tourmaline places the granite not far from that of Dart- 

 moor, and one might expect tin in the vicinity. I obtained one 

 small specimen from the granite. None was, however, found 

 amidst the detritus." 



3. Extract from Report to the Colonial Secretary, dated Range/s Valley, 



Severn River, ^th May, 1853 : — 



" Of metals, besides gold, I have met with sulphuret of anti- 

 mony ; molybdenite, in radiating masses, occurs in the granite 

 east of Dundee, and in more plentiful quantity near New Yalley ; 

 wolfram and oxide of tin, with tourmaline, occur near Dundee 

 and in Paradise Creek, and it is probable that this ore of tin is 

 plentifully distributed in the alluvia of other tracts, as I have 

 found it amidst the spinelle rubies, Oriental emeralds, sapphires, 

 and other gems of the detritus from granite." 



" Mr. Fox obtained oxide of tin in the form of crystals of 

 felspar (De la Beche, Report p. 390) ; it is in similar form that I 

 have seen oxide of tin in New England." 



4. Extract from Evidence before the Select Committee on the Gold Fields 



Management Bill, 19th August, 1853 : — 



" In sixteen of these counties (Northern Grold Fields) gold 

 has been found to exist. Besides gold, there are lead, copper, 

 antimony, molybdenite, iron, and tin, and various gems." 



5. Extract from Report to the Colonial Secretary, dated 14:th October, 1853, 



on the Geology of the Basin of the Condamine River : — 



" I may, however, remark that there are gems and tin ore in 

 many localities, of which little account was taken, but which may 

 one day prove as valuable as gold. Respecting the tin ore, I may 

 state that I found it in almost every mass of drift in every portion 

 of the country I have explored for gold, and that it is frequently 

 abundant where gold is wanting. It exists in all the western 

 streams from the Peel to the Condamine, and it was equally 

 common in the southern districts." 



6. Extract from a letter to the Editor of the Herald, dated IZth January, 



1854 :— 



"Sir, — Observing in your impression this morning a notice of tin 

 ore like the ' stream tin ' of Cornwall, by Mr. Storer, of the TJ. S. 

 Ex. Ex., in the alluvia of the Ovens, I take occasion to state that 



