6Q APPElfDIX. 



this valuable ore is not confined to the Ovens, but exists, as I have 

 found during my late exploration of this Colony, as well as of 

 Victoria, in a vast number of localities, always with gold derived 

 from granite, and frequently where no gold has been discovered 

 I found it abundantly in the southern country, and all through 

 New England and its flanks. I was first led to anticipate tin from 

 observing the presence of tourmaline granite, and the indication 

 has not deceived me. It is from precisely such granite that it has 

 been derived in Cornwall ; and coupling this fact with another, 

 viz., that tin exists in great abundance at Banca, and gold also in 

 others of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, we have every 

 reason to conclude that both these metals (since the geological 

 formations are persistent) will be found in certaia localities all 

 through the range of the Australian Cordillera up to Torres 

 Strait." 



7. Extract from Evidence before the Select Committee on Claims, 12th April, 



1861 :— 



" 147. With regard to tin, I consider I was the first to find tin 

 in the Colony." 



" 148. I did not find it on the Ovens — it was on the Murrum- 

 bidgee, on the Alps, and in New England." 



" 149. "With regard to the black sand of New England, I had 

 some correspondence respecting it. I have placed some of it 

 under the microscope, and I find it is a mass of pure crystals." 



