the Brookstreet valley and in numerous curvatures to the height 
of the mountain. 
In the northern continuation of that extensive serpentine mass 
which is met with on the Dun Mountain, traces of copper-ores have 
also been found on the Croixelles Harbour, on Current Basin and 
upon d’Urville’s Island. But on those points, also, the experiments 
made have as yet been without any striking success. Nelson, how- 
ever, may well be satisfied. Its beautiful agricultural and pasture- 
land, its coal-mines, and its gold-fields, are rich sources of wealth 
and prosperity, and the discoveries of future years 1 may perhaps 
even realize in their lull extent the past and present anticipations 
of great quantities of copper and other ores existing in that province. 
1 The Broth. Curtis in 1861 opened extensive beds of plumbago near Pakawau. 
