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The reef was found to intersect the dyke at 40 feet from the cross-cut 
in a north-westerly direction, and at 40 feet in a south-easterly direction, 
giving a total displacement on this level of 80 feet. In this cross-cut, 15 feet 
from the shaft, is a fault dipping northward, and such faults have also to 
be reckoned with. The amount of displacement in this case is not known. 
Fig. 29. 
Transverse vertical Section. Looking S.E. Scale, 8 feet to i inch. 
At the 380-ft. level there is a cross-cut 30 feet long in a north-easterly 
direction to the reef channel, but no reef has been found. The level 
has been driven south-westerly for 58 feet. The dyke is in the end of 
this level. The pitch of the country-rocks is north-westerly at 42 deg. 
The level to the north-west has been driven for 158 feet. At 27 feet 
a small quartz reef shows for a length of 12 feet along the level. At 
47 feet an inch of quartz shows, and this increases to 8 inches in thickness 
at the intersection of the dvke and the reef. All the countrv-rocks dip 
S.W. 
At the bottom (450 feet) level the cross-cut is 13 feet to the north-east 
where the reef channel was cut, dipping at 75 deg. S.W. The level has- 
been driven to the north-west for 200 feet. At 180 feet the dyke was 
cut. The dip of the beds in the cross-cut is 75 deg. S.W. 
From the Strathbogie Ranges on the north to the Gippsland railway 
on the south, and from the Macalister River on the east to the North- 
Eastern railway on the west, is a vast area of Silurian rocks intersected 
by dioritic dykes. In some localities, as at Wood’s Point, Walhalla, 
&c., the quartz veins that occur along these dykes have been marvellously 
rich in gold. It is to be expected that where the same zones of Silurian 
beds are cut by these dykes, similar productiveness in gold will exist, and 
earnest attention is being directed towards identifying the fossils asso¬ 
ciated with such beds in order to be able to identify the different zones. 
[Report sent in nth December , 7905.] 
