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IV. A miner alogical Accoimt of the Native Gold lately disco- 
vered in Ireland. In a Letter from Abraham Mills, Esq. to 
Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. 
Read December 17, 1795. 
CroneRane Copper Mines, near Rathdrura, 
SIR, Nov. 21, 1795. 
The extraordinary circumstance of native gold being found 
in this vicinity, early excited my attention, and led me to seize 
the first opportunity that presented itself, after my late ar- 
rival here, to inspect the place where the discovery was made. 
I went thither on Tuesday, the 3d of this month, with Mr. 
Lloyd, of Havodyhos, and Mr. Weaver. The former having 
given you some account of the circumstances which attended 
the original discovery, and, since he left me, a favourable day 
having enabled me to take a second view of the adjacent coun- 
try, I shall now attempt to describe the general appearance, 
and add such further information as has come to my know- 
ledge. 
The workings which the peasantry recently undertook, are 
on the north-east side of the mountain Croughan Kinshelly, 
within the barony of Arklow, and county of Wicklow, on the 
lands of the Earl of Carysfort, wherein the Earl of Ormond 
claims a right to the minerals, in consequence (as I have been 
informed), of a grant in the reign of King Henry the Second, 
