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A very rich patch of alluvium workings were on an island to the Southward 
on this same line, and several other rich patches of surfacing were also found on 
both sides of the main ridge. 
There is plenty of fresh water on this field, and timber within a reasonable 
distance. The only drawback to the water is that it will in all probability become 
slightly brackish when heavily drawn upon, particularly towards the end of the 
summer. 
Between Lake Annean and Yagahong the country is flat and is mostly 
covered by thickets. 
Gardner’s. 
Gardner’s find is situated near the Yagahong, a hill about 20 miles East of 
Lake Annean here; the gold appears to have been quite accidentally found by a 
party who had lost their way in a thicket. The reef does not out-crop at the 
surface, and there are no rocks visible, the whole being capped by a white deposit 
called locally “ opaline.” This deposit generally consists of either gypsum and 
sand or magnesia, and is often very hard; it is deposited by the action of water, 
which is in most cases found in close proximity. This locality, however, proved 
the exception to the rule. 
The stone is brownish and whitish quartz, intermixed with a certain amount 
of broken country and casing, measuring together about 8ft. in width, which 
carries a large quantity of fine gold all the way down to the water level, which is 
50 feet. here. This lode strikes in an East and West direction, dipping nearly 
vertical, or a little to the Southward, It is of a very different character to any 
other stone on the field, and although no showy specimens are found the stone 
is extremely rich, as it carries fine gold all through. 
Quin’s. 
Quin’s is about 12 miles South of Yagahong near Nowtlianna, the country 
between the two points being mostly loamy without out-crops of rock. 
At. Quin’s some low rough ranges of metamorphic rock rise from the plain, 
which, for a considerable distance from them, is strewn with stones. 
The reefs here are mostly large and very ferruginous; in fact, in some cases, 
would be better described as iron lodes. These of course, although consisting of 
haematite at the surface, will make into pyrites in depth, which will be more 
troublesome to work ; therefore, only those reefs which are very rich will be worth 
working after they cease to pay the prospectors to do so by hand. 
Some of the gullies in those hills proved very rich in alluvial gold, and were 
easily worked, as the gold was found in a defined gutter, but up to the present no 
reefs along these gullies have been found which were rich enough to work. 
About 100 miles North of this, in the Robinson Ranges, on the North side of 
the Murchison River, two other rich patches of workings were opened, one being 
called the Horse Shoe Bend. These are .probably not on the same line of country 
as the Murchison proper, as it seems to take a sudden turn to the Eastward at the 
Nannine and Gardner’s. 
Between Lake Annean and the Cue, a distance of about 50 miles North, the 
country is mostly covered by the remains of the tableland formation, portions of 
which are still left standing on some small Bills close to the North side of the 
Cue. This country is mostly covered with thickets, but it opens out in places into 
large salt, sandy flats or stony plains around the bases of the one or two ridges of 
metamorphic rock which outcrop here and there, between the two points. There is 
also a large patch of limestone country near the Mil ley Spring, at which place 
there is a nice little forest of white gum and morrell, which latter timber is of 
great value for mining purposes. 
