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carrying off the water may be lowered considerably* 

 there is no doubt but that any part of the hill can be 

 drained by adit to a depth of at least seventy-five feet. 



Proceeding in a south-west direction from this point, 

 the hill rises rapidly, and the Nos. 5, 6 and 7 indicate 

 shallow ditches, or trial excavations, none of them ex- 

 ceeding three feet in depth, but in all of which the 

 crown of the vein is manifest. 



No. 8 is an excavation that was made before the 

 course of the load or vein was properly understood, and 

 having been found several yards to the north-west of the 

 vein, another opening. No. 9, about three yards deep 

 was afterwards made to the south- east of it, and in this 

 the vein is palpably visible. Both these places are 

 mere excavations, no shaft work having yet been done. 



No. 10 is a shaft on the summit of the hill, or highest 

 point of the ground ; it is, as the other, timbered about half 

 way down, having an opening of ten by seven feet, and 

 is forty-one feet deep, with no other water in it than has 

 fallen from rains. The vein has been regularly opened 

 and is visible for about ten feet in height, and the me- 

 talliferous quartz in it is upwards of three feet wide. 

 This shaft is 210 yards from the north-east boundary 

 line of the estate. 



No. 11 is a large round pit, about six feet deep, on 

 both sides of which the vein is clearly developed. 



No. 12 is a long but shallow cut made transverse to 

 the vein, of small depth, but in which it is clearly seen 

 without any material change of appearances. This is 

 the last opening that has been made in a south-west di- 



