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■sliai’p knife would cut through a plum-cakc. Sections of those 
cuttings being now seen in the side gullies about the Denisou 
and Moonam Brook — the cement rock showing smooth plane 
sides, with the hard pebbles cut through as witli a saw. Further, 
and exceedingly noteworth}^ in a scientific point of view, the 
pudding-stone is sometimes sliced and re-cemented after a sliding 
motion as it were of slice on slice hashad]dacc; so that the 
several portions of boulders do not unite in a fitting manner, but 
with odds on each side, as elucidated by a specimen shown me by 
Dr. Creed, of Scone, and others shown me in England by Messrs. 
Fox, of Falmouth. 
Hypothetical, 
This inetamorphism or cleavage of the “Old Eed” or other 
strata on the Silurian, Permian or clay slates, may have been 
induced by accidental planetary heat ; thence thermo-electricity, 
which may constantly have play in the earth’s lithogenic arrange- 
ments. 
Further, as it regards the ancient and recent auriferous valleys, 
and in order to explain their causes and non-conforming positions, 
we suggest that the undermost rocks of this part of the earth at 
first suddenly uplifted Avere eroded into gullies by the violence of 
the retiring ocean, and before there was time for floral life or for 
its remains to be collected in the gullies the continent again 
dropped partially under the sea, and so remained until drifted 
Avoody matter, ordure of fisli, mud, and sand lying on the bottom 
of the sea or lake, became buried in lava, Avhieh by its own hctat 
and help of hydraulic pressure, dissolved silex for the petrifaction 
of AA^ood and coprolites uoav so extensively found imderlying the 
hill-caps of laA^a. We have only then to suggest a final precipita- 
tion of the ocean in a Avestcrly direction over this country to 
produce the present gullies Avitli their gold, cut through every- 
thing, denude the eastern sides of mountains to the bare crag, 
clothe the AA*cstern AAuth diluvium, and thus carve out a neAV set 
of gullies Avith their golden drift?!. 
Mininy eMterpriae. 
In coming to the mining enterprise of thivS district, it may he 
said that it is not exempt from that moral blight by Avhieh mining 
and other human enterprises will continue to suffer as heretofore. 
There is a faunal, a floral, and mercantile blight by Avhich man is 
threatened and punished ; but he must nevertheless plant his 
crop, rear his live stock, and initiate new enterprises in the 
chances there are of escape. 
Whatever the villainy by which mining is brought to a Ioav ebb 
in this country, there is the consolation that the mines and the 
hills are intact, and remain for the discreet worker, the londjlde 
