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at New York, produced 16 dollars per bushel. All 
the old residents in the Gaboon know the story of 
the gold dust. The prospector was the late Cap¬ 
tain Richard E. Lawlin, of New York, who was 
employed by Messrs. Bishop of Philadelphia, the 
same house that commissioned the chasseur de 
gorilles to collect “ rubber ” for them, and who was 
so eminently useful to the young French traveller 
SIERRA DEL CRYSTAL, FROM THE SEA. 
that the scant notice of his name is considered 
curious. 
Great would be my wonder if the West African 
as well as the East African Ghats did not prove au¬ 
riferous ; both fulfil all the required conditions, and 
both await actual discovery. The Mountains of the 
Moon, so frequently mentioned by M. du Chaillu 
and the Gaboon Mission, are doubtless the versants 
between the valleys of the Niger and the Congo. 
Lately Dr. Schweinfurth found an equatorial range 
which, stretching northwards towards the Bahr el 
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