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Here the gold deposit ought to be found there in hence, the sand is coarse, loose, and was the small water worn quality pebbles and a newly coloured sand usually found in gold claims. On Mount Jones the washing stuff has occasionally been found two feet thick. Nearly four thousand souls are located upon this field [can't read] about forty diggers at work upon the river some distance to the westward of the hill diggings. The amount of influence through which the miners at this field have to bass does not consist of one solid mass but is interspersed in pieces and can be got out of the claims without blasting. The largest pieces found does not exceed three hundred might, and in some claims they are compatively [comparitively] small.

The observations of a scientific writer prove that although these mines could be any great depth of water permantly [permanantly] accumulated on the table land, yet there is undoubled proof that water of some depth spread out the detritus, & has been conformed to united spots on the plains at Waloha, Pates Range, Armadale & Falooner. At Dangars Lagoon [upon] the dividing range about one hundred & sixty foot above the Wralla or Rocky river water has accumulated  & is studied by isolated blocks of granite perfectly rounded with its marks of erosion as if beaten by waves.

The dividing range is in places very low and similar observations were made in the granite blocks which occur on the [can't read] of the creek near Gostwyk and also in the granite near Gara & Salisbury plains.

During the early settlement of the district of New England the lagoons on the plains were more extensive than at present. That on Falooner iron was then considered to be eight miles in circumference, although now confined to a marsh & during some seasons the former bed of the once extensive lagoon is perfectly dry. In the Wralla the gold does not lie in any vain, but is calculated in patches, and as yet the diggers have been unable to come across any continuous lead.

The diggers from Victoria who are located at this field are puzzled after being accustomed to follow up the vein as at the Eureka and other places. The sinking is deep, but not of such a laborious nature as has been described. The substance named iron stone is misnamed, it is more like lava & is broken by means of hammers & iron wedges. Large yields of gold continue to be found at the Rocky river gold field, some parties have obtained fifty miners of gold from a cart load of washing stuff. A considerable quantity of the yield got at the Wralla is as fine as [can't read] much of this fine gold is lost by washing either not of the tin dish or the cradle, as also in the after prices of cleaning or preparing the gold for sale which is done by blowing with the breath. The diggers state that this thin and light gold is then lost. This field is of granite and trap formation and the diggings are situate

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