EEMARKABLE GOLD NUGGETS. £83 



126. — Found at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland, about 1502. Gross 

 "weight, troy, 27 oz. 



127. — Found at Croghan Kinshela, County Wicklow, Ireland. It con- 

 tained about 92-3 per cent, gold, 6-27 silver, and 0*78 iron. Date of dis- 

 covery, 1797. Gross weight, troy, 22 ozs. 



128. — Found at Merri Jig Creek, Gipps Land, Victoria. Gross weight, 

 troy, 18 ozs. 16 dwts. 



129. — Broken from quartz rock at Tarrengower, Victoria (quartz 

 specimen.) Date of discovery, 1861. Gross weight, troy, 18 ozs. 16 grs. 

 Specific gravity, 6-87. Estimate weight of pure gold, 12-3-16. 



130. — Found at Croghan Kinshela, County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1797. 

 Gross weight, troy, 18 oz. 



131. — Found at Summer Hill Creek, New South Wales, 13th May, 

 1851. The earliest nugget found in New South Wales, after the gold dis- 

 covery there by Hargreaves. Gross weight, troy, 13 oz. 



132. — Found at Mount Blackwood, Victoria, in 1855. Gross weight, troy, 

 11 oz. 3 dwts. 11 grs. Specific gravity, 5 - 69. Estimate weight of pure gold, 

 6-18. 



133. — Detached from quartz rock, at Tarrengower, Victoria (quartz 

 specimen), in 1861. Gross weight, troy, 9 oz. 7 dwts. Specific gravity, 

 10-10. Estimate weight of pure gold, 7-19-21. 



134. — Found at Weisskirch, Austria, in 1851. Gross weight, troy, 9 oz, 



135. — Found at Bocky Biver, Nelson, New Zealand, quite free from 

 quartz, in 1858. Gross weight, troy, 8 ozs. 14 dwts. 



136. — Found at Newfane, Vermont, United States, in 1826 ; gold, with 

 rock crystal. Gross weight, troy, 8 oz. 10 dwts. 



137. — Found in New Zealand ; gold and dark-coloured quartz. 1853. 

 Gross weight, troy, 8 oz. 



138. — Found at Canoona, Port Curtis, Queensland, in 1859. Gross 

 weight, troy, 7 ozs. 



139. — Found at Touffe des Pins, Canada. Gross weight, troy, 4 ozs. 



140. — Found at Echunga, South Australia, in Oct., 1852. Gross weight, 

 troy, 2 ozs. 14 dwts. 



141. — Found in Breadalbane, Perthshire, Scotland. Gross weight, 

 troy, 2 ozs. 



142. — Found at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland ; in the Cabinet of the 

 late Lord Hopetoun. Gross weight, troy, 1 oz 10 dwts. 



143. — Found at Echunga, South Australia, seven feet below the surface 

 in 1852. Gross weight, troy, 1 oz. 10 dwts. 



144. — Found at Avoca, Victoria, in 1856, encrusted with black oxide of 

 manganese. Gross w r eight, Troy, 17 dwts. 



145. — Found in the parish of Creed, Cornwall, England, in 1756. 

 Borlase. Gross weight, troy, 15 dwts. 3 grs. 



146. — Found at Tangier (new diggings), Nova Scotia, in 1861. Gross 

 weight, troy, 15 dwts. 



147. — Found in Fingal, Tasmania. Gross weight, troy, 12 dwts. 



