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No. 7, Two speeimeus of quartz and tin obtained from Ardern 
and Griffiths' Lode, Tent Hill, miles east of Vegetable Creeh, 
at a depth of 12 feet from surface. At present no work is 
being done on this lode. A shaft is sunk to a depth of 35 feet, 
and the lode from surface has gradually improved, being now of 
a very defined character, 10 inches wide, and j^^oducing good 
stones of tin throughout. 
No. 6. Two specimens from the same shaft as described above, 
in Ardern and Griffiths' property, but from 30 feet from smTace. 
These two specimens are formed of quartz, tin ore, mispickel, 
sulphide of copper, with chalcedonic quartz cavities. The lodo 
occurs in a clay-slate formation. 
No. 8. — Specimens of quartz and tin from a prospecting shaft 
6 feet deep, sunk on Elder & Co.’s ground, at the GraA^eyard 
Creek, one mile south of Vegetable Creek. No more work has 
been done. 
No. 9. — Two specimens of faces of tin ore from the Great 
Britain Tin Mine, situated at the head of Vegetable Creek; 
stones like the samples are to be found all over the lead in this 
mine. The wash is of a stiffy clayey creek w'ash, heavily inter- 
mixed with large boulders, and lays on a clay-stone reef. Tn my 
report of 1st February last, on the A^egetable Creek Tin Mines, 
will be seen full particulars of this mine. 
No. 10. — Specimens of petrified Avood, from the Springs Strath- 
bogie. The hills all around Kangaroo Flat and the Springs are 
covered with petrified AA'Ood, in fact on the leading range running 
parallel with the Glen Creek, a whole tree from the roots to the 
branches, lying on the ground, is petrified. The country is of a 
volcanic basalt formation, and tin ore is found at a depth of from 
10 feet to 70, and 170 feet from surface. Messrs. Hull Bros. 
& Co., oAAm large tracts of mineral ground in this part of the 
district, and have spent considerable sums of money in prospect- 
ing their ground, but have not yet, unfortunately, struck anything 
excessively rich. 
No. 11. — A specimen of tin ore from McDonald’s property, 
Glen Creek, fourteen miles north of A'egetablc Creek. This- 
specimen is a sample of some coarse tin, Avhich has been sluiced 
in a gully adjacent to a rich lode. The property is in the hands 
of Sydney speculators, but not any AV'ork has been done to give it 
a fair trial, yet it is recognized by all the old residents of this 
portion of the tin fields as being the richest and best shoAV of a 
lode yet found in New England. 
No. 12. — Two specimens of stanniferou.s Avash-dirt from Ar- 
dern’s 40-acre block, at the very head of A^egetable Creek. This 
block has been worked by several different parties of tributers, 
Avho worked out nearly all the creek bed, Avhich is here a width 
of 6 to 10 yards ; but lately another party, Avhile prospecting the 
