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Waterloo, Raglan, and Beaufort, all within a strip of moderate 
width, having a direction approximately coincident with the 
strike of the Silurian rocks. Northward from St. Arnaud the 
country consists of wide plains, to prospect the deep alluvial 
deposits of which would be expensive aud difficult, though 
perhaps future discoveries may warrant the attempt being made; 
but on either side of a line from St. Arnaud to Beaufort there is 
a considerable extent of country worthy of careful search, and 
many reefs once worked, but now abandoned, which would in all 
likelihood pay well wero work resumed on them. 
The range lying between Raglan and Waterloo, and terminating 
at Beaufort, offers special inducements to the quartz prospector, 
ns from its denudation in past times a great quantity of alluvial 
gold must have been derived, and there ought to bo unromoved 
reefs remaining, which contain gold in payable quantity. Gold 
has been found south from Beaufort to the verge of the Lilerie 
Plain, the deep ground of which is untried, and across that plain 
far to the south, on tho apparent prolongation of the belt, are the 
Skipton diggings, thus indicating the probability of the main- 
tenance of the auriferous character of tho Silurian rocks beneath 
tho plain. Of this, however, more will be said in connexion with 
the next t wo belts of gold-bearing country, one of which contains 
— north of the plains — Bealiba, Ilomebusk, Avoca, Lamplough, 
and Lcxton ; on the south, Carngham, Linton, and Happy Valley. 
Tho other comprises: — North — Wedderburn, Wehla, McIntyre, 
Berlin, Moliagul, Goldsborough, Dunolly, Timor, Maryborough, 
Amherst, and Talbot ; south — Iladdon, Smythesdale, Scarsdale, 
and Rokewood. It may be remarked that though names of 
detached localities are given to indicate the course of the belts, 
there are really but few breaks in tho continuity of the auriferous 
character of the last-mentioned from Wedderburn to Talbot, and 
from Iladdon to Rokewood. Alluvial diggings have been worked 
all along from place to place in both sections of the belt, the gap 
between w'hich is occupied by the outcropping granite of the 
Mount Beckworth Range, and the basaltic plains extending west- 
ward from Ballarat, to the Ilopkins Valley, through Lilerie, 
between Beaufort and Carngham. Undorueath these plains must 
lie the extensions of the leads trending west from Ballarat, of 
those of Iladdon, and doubtless many others at present unknown. 
These aro evidently joined near Lilerie by the Waterloo leads, and 
several others near Beaufort. There is every probability that 
where these leads cross the three last-mentioned belts, beneath 
the Burrumbeet and Lilerie Plains, eastward of a lino from Beau- 
fort to Carngham, there may oxist a deep alluvial gold-field equal 
to any yet found in Victoria, and that the northern and wostern 
lead system of Ballarat, though impoverished immediately west of 
that city, may be found to have received a wonderful accession of 
