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One or two insignificant pits have also here been sunk at this 

 place. 



In the opposite direction or south of Buswapoor about a mile 

 from it there are indications of the vein in pieces of lead that have 

 been found in the debris at the surface, I observed also many- 

 lumps of the argillaceous breccia scattered about. I did not, how- 

 ever, succeed in meeting with the out crop of the vein itself. 



Observing, however, the uniform course of the vein, I directed 

 my search further to the south in a range of high hills named 

 Lunkamulla. 



It was not however till some time after my departure from Nun- 

 diallumpett when I had established my camp during my operations 

 in this locality that I received intelligence from a Goomaster acting 

 under my instructions of his success together with the samples of 

 the ore ; I had not therefore an opportunity of inspecting person- 

 ally this spot. 



Upon examining these samples of ore, I found a very large ad- 

 mixture of copper with the galena ; galena is usually associated 

 with copper but tne abundance of the latter material in these sam- 

 ples lead to the inference that the vein on being worked would 

 attain an importance on account of the copper. 



From the investigations I have made and above detailed, it 

 would appear that in the districts in which they have been prose- 

 cuted, there exist a series of mineral veins the individual examples 

 as yet discovered being of some extent, and having a uniform 

 direction of north and south and that analagous to the great Cor- 

 nish mining district of England there are here also a series of non- 

 metalliferous veins or dykes running through the country and 

 crossing the former nearly at right angles to them, the directions 

 here, however, being the converse of those of Cornwall, where the 

 metal yielding veins are east and west, the unproductive or cross 

 courses north and south ; as it is not usual for mineral veins to 

 occur in isolated examples in a district it is fairly to be presumed 

 that here others accompany those now discovered. 



In respect to the profitable working of the veins now known ; 

 every thing would depend upon their productiveness in ore in 



