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wearing down more rapidly than that on the western 
side, which is gneissose and granitic, and comparatively 
hard. 
At least four leads of different periods occur in Living¬ 
stone Creek, and probably five or more ancient lake basins 
•—all of which have been drained by the creeks having 
cut through the lower rims—except one, the Livingstone 
Swamp. 
Miners possessed of the same knowledge and skill as 
the owner of the Dry Hill claim would probably find in 
the streams in this tract of country similar lake basins 
with the like auriferous gravels; and the plan and section 
we have given may perhaps assist prospectors who see 
these formations for the first time. 
The sculpturing of the hills on the right as Ave ascended 
the steep from the bed of the creek at Dry Ilill claim, on 
the road to Parslow’s, Avas so remarkable as to attract the 
attention of all. The range, Avith a generally even slope 
to the creek, is carved as if by art. Small watercourses, 
active only during rains, at almost equal distances apart 
(perhaps not more than 200 or 300 feet), running straight 
down hill to the creek, have cut hollows in the range, and 
from hollow to holloAV there is a smooth curve. The 
effect is grotesque ; and it is perhaps only in mica-scliists 
of similar character, and in the same situation, that 
the like symmetrical arrangement of buttresses can be 
observed. 
Ascending the hill from the creek we saAV the same 
rather soft mica-schist as we found on approaching Omeo, 
but here and there occur intrusive dykes or intercalated 
layers of a liornblendic rock. 
Further oil we noted knotted argillaceous mica-schist, 
with veins of hard dense Avliite quartz, not as yet proved 
