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rection, and is distant 310 yards from the north-east 

 boundary, or 209 yards from the first deep opening. 

 No. 3, so that the vein has been laid open in different 

 places for this entire distance, and is thus known to ex- 

 ist, and from the general form of the land, there is no 

 reason to doubt but that the vein traverses the whole 

 length of the estate, which is about 910 yards from A to 

 A, as the walls of the load can be distinctly traced at A 

 in common slate, though of a more solid and undecom- 

 posed quality, and partaking more of the appearance of 

 ancient formation. These rocks contain small crystallized 

 magnesian garnets, and the metalliferous character of the 

 vein here is not quite so good or strongly marked as in 

 the central and north-east end of the estate. 



Nos. 13 and 14 are two log sheds erected for deposit- 

 ing the ores as they are brought up. They are thirteen 

 feet square, and about seven feet high. 



No. 15 is a long, shallow excavation made to the 

 north-west of the load or vein above referred to, and by 

 which the position of a small vein, BB, of from nine to 

 twelve inches wide, was discovered. It is colored yel- 

 low in the plan, and is fifty- two yards north-west of the 

 principal vein, AA. Its position towards the south- 

 west could not be very distinctly traced on account of 

 its passing through thickly wooded land ; but specimens 

 of the ore were taken from the excavation No. 15, and 

 consisted of a blue quartz, much broken and separated, 

 and the surfaces and interstices covered and filled with 

 yellow oxide of iron. The washing obtained from these 

 specimens was quite as rich, or richer, than those ob- 

 tained from the principal vein. 



