REMARKABLE GOLD NUGGETS. 281 



20 feet. After pounding to extract some quartz, it weighed 126 ozs. Gross 

 weight, troy, 140 ozs. 



88. — Found at the Tooloom Diggings, N.S.W., nearly solid gold. Date 

 of discovery, 1860. Gross weight, troy, 140 ozs. 



89. — Found at Jim Crow, Victoria, at a depth of 4 feet, in Sept., 1858. 

 Gross weight, troy, 136 ozs. 



90. — Found at Mount Korong, Victoria, 4| feet from the surface, in Oct., 

 1856. Gross weight, troy, 132 ozs. 9 dwts. Specific gravity, 5*62. Estimate 

 value of pure gold, 90*14. 



91. — Found in Victoria, in 1854. Gross weight, troy, 128 ozs. 2 dwts. 12 

 grs. Specific gravity, 11*14. Estimate weight of pure gold, 103. 



92. — Found at Yecorata, Sinaloa, Mexico. It weighed 16 marcs 4 ozs. 

 4 ochavas ; fineness 22 carats. Deposited in the Royal Cabinet at Madrid. 

 Date of discovery, about 1771, Robertson. Gross weight, ^troy, 122 ozs. 

 10 dwts. 5 grs. 



93. — Found at Kingower, Victoria, by a boy, a few inches beneath the 

 surface, in Sept. 1858. Gross weight, troy, 120 ozs. 



94. — Broken off quartz rock in a mine at Tarrengower, Victoria (quartz 

 specimen), in 1861. Gross weight, troy, 119 ozs. 14 dwts. 18 grs. Specific 

 gravity, 4*94. Estimate weight of pure gold, 64*7*2. 



95. — Found in California. Received at the United States Mint, 1849, 

 Gross weight, troy, 115 ozs. 12 dwts. 



96. — Found at Dunolly, Victoria, in 1854, gold, quartz, and oxide of 

 iron. Gross weight, troy, 110 ozs. 9 dwts. Specific gravity, 12*05. Estimate 

 weight of pure gold, 100*2*14. 



97. — Found at Kingower, Victoria, in Sept., 1861. Gross weight, troy, 

 106 ozs. 15 dwts. 



98. — Found at Mount Moliagul, by Chinamen, in Nov., 1857 ; a solid 

 lump of gold. Value 400Z. Gross weight, troy, 104 ozs. 8 dwts. 



99. — Found at Kingower, Victoria, in Sept., 1861. Gross weight, troy, 

 100 ozs. 10 dwts. 



100. — Broken off quartz rock in a mine at Tarrengower, Victoria, in 

 1861. Gross weight, troy, 99 ozs. 10 dwts. 17 grs. Specific gravity, 4*00. 

 Estimate weight of gold, 28*6*0. 



101. — Found^at Sonora, Mexico. Weight, 3 kilogrammes. Humboldt. 

 Gross weight, troy, 96 ozs. 9 dwts. 



102. — Found, in 1855, at Jim Crow, Victoria. Gross weight, 95 ozs. 

 6 dwts. Specific gravity, 4*88. Estimate weight of gold, 50*12. 



103. — Found at Kiandra, Snowy River, New South "Wales, in March, 

 1860. Gross weight, troy, 93 oz. 18 dwts. 



104. — Found at Black Hill, Ballaarat, Victoria, Oct., 14th, 1851, a solid 

 mass of gold, being the first largest piece of solid gold raised in the 

 colony, or in any part of the British dominions. Gross weight, troy, 

 90 ozs. 



105. — Found at Louisa Creek, New South Wales, gold and quartz, Oct : 

 25th, 1851. Gross weight, troy, 90 ozs. Q 



