102 Geological Features of the S. Division, [no. 1, new series, 
particles in the alluvium and sand of a plain at the foot of a small 
mountain about two miles from the Travellerb' bungalow. The soil 
and alluvium of this plain are composed of the disintegrated and 
decomposed rocks of the mountain, as the frequent fragments, and 
sand and gravel abundantly testify. So that there is no doubt, but 
that the gold was originally in this rock which is in some places a 
granulitic, in some a micaceous, and in others a syenitic granite 
containing alamandine garnets and specular iron in abundance. 
The yield of gold as yet obtained H rather small, not averaging 
more in value than could be earned by day labor. This is proba- 
bly owing, partly to the inefficient way th*? labor is performed, and 
partly to a want of water : it is the opinion of those who have 
taken gold here that the proportion of gold is much larger at the 
depth of some feet below the soil than on the surface. Could a 
shaft be sunk some 25 or 30 feet, there is a fair prospect that the 
yield would well repay the labor, especially as it would afford water 
to wash the earth and sand, which is now found only at a consider- 
able distance from the place where it could be used. 
