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runs round the edge of the swamp with a general westerly 
course where worked by the Southern Cross Company, but 
has lately taken a bend, and now inclines south also. If they 
do come together, I thiuk it will be a long way down from 
where they are worked now. There is a bluestone under 
the swamp, just the same as any other part of the plateau, a 
few feet from the surface. The Eoyal Saxon Company 
have followed the National lead (a tributary of the Inker- 
man), a long way below it. The Southern Cross have also 
got wash dirt below the swamp, and on the other side the 
Durham Company have struck a gutter, as also on a third 
side have the Great Eepublic, so that they will soon see 
what is below it, hemmed in as it is. As yowv memory 
Fig. 8.— Diagram of the turn of several gold leads round Baliarat swamp. 
does not serve you very well about the swamp and the leads 
in its neighbourhood, the accompanying rough sketch, fig. 3, 
failing my getting an extended map of the leads, will show 
you their position. The Inkerman lead (5 in diagram) rises 
in Devil's Gulley beyond the Black hill, receives some tribu- 
taries in its early course, and at the Eoyal Saxon claim (E) 
receives nearly together the Baliarat mill-lead (2), and the 
National lead (3). The Southern Cross Company (D) are 
working the Inkerman below the swamp, and that is all 
