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particles in the alluvium and sand of a plain at the foot of a small 

 mountain about two miles from the Travellers' 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 is rather small, not averaging 

 more in value than could be earned by day labor. This is proba- 

 bly owing, partly to the inefficient way the 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. 



