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two pieces of quartz pebbles bearing gold were found. There is no outcrop- 
of auriferous rocks in the vicinity, nor is there any auriferous gravel; but 
there are probably thick beds of Cainozoic age below the site of the nugget. 
Taking all the circumstances into account, there can be little doubt that 
this nugget was picked up by blacks, perhaps on the auriferous area further 
to the south, and that it was transported to the old camping place, and left 
there. The evidences of sand wear would indicate that it may have been 
left there a long time ago. 
It is well known that the aborigines took notice of gold when in their 
primitive condition, attracted, no doubt, by its colour, bright metallic- 
lustre, and its unusual weight. A blackfellow found the first recorded 
large nugget of gold in Australia. This was at the Summit, New South 
Wales, and the writer saw this aborigine shortly afterwards. In Western 
Australia nuggets of gold have frequently been found in situations where- 
only human agency could have placed them, such as on the surface mud of 
Lake Austen, &c. 
Last year, at Baringhup', a large nugget was found on the eastern side 
of the Loddon River, on a granite area, by a farmer while ploughing, and 
this also may have been transported by blacks. 
[Report sent in ist November, 7905.] 
MAXWELL’S REEF, INGLEWOOD. 
(NO. 4 ON LOCALITY MAP.) 
By E. J . Dunn , F.G.S., Director , Geological Survey. 
At the surface a considerable amount of work was formerly done on a 
reef that appears to strike with the beds, but which really cuts across them 
and dips to the east. Profitable results are stated to have been obtained, 
and lines of reef parallel to Maxwell’s reef were also -worked. 
Maxwell’s reef—which is about a mile N.E. from Inglewood—out¬ 
cropped at the surface 120 feet to the west of the present shaft. It 
crosses the shaft at 465 feet from the surface, and two cross-cuts are being 
driven eastward to cut the reef on its dip. The shaft is 780 feet deep. 
At 686 feet the cross-cut has been extended eastward for 75 feet. An 
anticline occurs 10 feet to the east of the shaft; then a sharp syncline fol¬ 
lows, and the beds from there to the end of the cross-cut dip to the west. 
The reef should soon be cut. 
At 766 feet a cross-cut is being driven eastward to cut Maxwell’s reef.. 
The country rocks are folded into a series of anticlines and svnclines. A 
nearly horizontal fault or “slide” cuts right through everything at this; 
level. 
\_Re-port sent in ist November, 7905.] 
THE ELIZA HILL MINE AND STEAD’S REEF, NEAR 
BARFOLD. 
(NO. 5 ON LOCALITY MAP.) 
By E. /. Dunn , E.G.S., Director , Geological Survey. 
The Eliza Hill Mine. 
This mine is about 8 miles distant in a northerly direction from Kyneton; 
and about 2 miles -westerly from Barfold, and 1,650 feet above sea-level. 
Formerly the property was known as the Greenhill South Gold mine. The 
