BRITISH COLONIES—NEW SOUTH WALES—SYDNEY.

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Erskine Flat.

1. Ferruginous clay, with pebbles of Lydian-stone and

quartz.—10 feet thick.

2. Sand, with quartz and fine grit; altered grit; and de-

composing granite —3 feet thick.

3. Coarse sand, with pebbles of altered slate and sand-

stone; grit; trap; and magnetic iron in fine par-ticles.—2 feet thick.

4. Sand, with pebbles of trap ; schist ; slate ; and quartz.

— 1 foot 6 inches thick.

5. Coarse shingle of trap ; quartzite and white quartz.—

1 foot thick.

6. Coarse yellowish sand, with quartzite (sandstone) ;

grit, in rounded masses, and fluviatile drift; mag-netic iron.—1 foot to 3 feet thick.

7. Coarse sand, and fragments of quartz, ironstone, Ly-

dian-stone, &c.—increasing in size, below, to massesof many cwt.—4 feet to 7 feet thick.

8. Conglomerate of clay and pebbles of grit, trap, quartzite,

and white quartz, with gold.— 3 feet to 5 feet thick.

9. Blueish-grey mud, with quartzite and blue siliceous

serpentine; hard sandstone; siliceous veinstone,covered by blisters of pyrites, with gold.—2 feet to4 feet thick.

10. Bed rock, blueish serpentine.

Nuggety Gully.

1. Earth from schist, particles of the latter, and magnetic

iron.—2 feet thick.

2. Grey decomposing schist; porphyry; fine magnetic

iron.—3 feet 6 inches thick. j

3. Pale porphyry clay; grit; Lydian-stone, with gold.— Class!.

9 inches. ,

4. Porphyry clay, with porphyry ; quartz ; and grit, with jyietala?

gold.—9 inches.

5. Bed rock, schistose siliceous rock.

Big Oaky Creek.

1. Gravel and shingle; grit, sandstone, trap, in brown

soil.—5 feet.

2. Ironstone and trap, with gold.—1 foot 6 inches thick.

3. Bed rock, trap.

Little Oaky Creek.

1. Clay, with fragments of spotted grit; gold ; and mag-

netic iron.

2. Bed rock, felspathic rock, approaching trachyte.

Green Wittle Flat.

1. AVhitish-grey sandy marl, externally like chalk, but not

calcareous.—1 foot to 1 foot 6 inches thick.

2. Sandy clay, with ironstone and iron pyrites.—5 feet to

7 feet thick.

3. Sandy clay and pebbles.—5 feet to 7 feet thick.

4. Brown, unctuous clay, with small shingle of ironstone,

trap, and red breccia.—1 foot to 1 foot 6 inches thick.

5. Buff-coloured clay, with pebbles of trap, ironstone, and

red quartz breccia.—2 feet 6 inches thick.

6. Bed rock, siliceous and trappean rock, with black

striated iron pyrites.

Ffundy Point.

Washing stuff :*—slate and baked slate, with quartz andgold, in large abraded pieces.

Meiioo River Diggings. —Specimens furnished by T. D. Miller, Esq., Gold Commissioner, Avisford.

Locality.

A.

Devil's Hole Creek , MerooRiver.

B.

Spring Flatupper part ofDevil’s HoleCreek.

C.

Nuggety

Gully.

D.

StockyardPoint, LongCreek.

E.

Richardson’sPoint , RightBank ofMeroo.

F, 4 milefrom E.

Griffith’sPoint, RightBank <fMeroo.

G.

Deep Crossing Place , MerooLeft Bank.

Heightabove theMeroo.

150 feet.

100 ft

20 feet.

et apart.

30 feet.

Surface

soil.

Pale yellowclay, withpebbles ofdecompos-ing Sand-stone, andeffervescingcalcareouspaste.

Alluvium 18inches to 2feet.

Sub-soil.

Decompos-ing conglo-merate ce-mented byhighly ef-fervescingwhite paste.

Red clay 4to 11 feet.Boulders 2to 10 feet.

Bright yelloweffervescingclay, withlarge lumpsof Quartz ;Slate ; flatpebbles ofSandstone, &c.,called “ DriftGold in it ; butwill not pay.

Washing

stuff.

Concrete 6inches to 3feet.

Ironstone con-glomerate, inyellow clay,with MagneticIron. The

diggers call itBurnt Gra-vel.”

Effervescingwhite cal-careouscon-cretionaryclay, hold-ing quartz.

White cal-careous clayand calca-reous rock.

Bright yellowclay,with con-glomerate ofQuartz; Slate;Ironstone, &c.Rubies andGarnets,wherethe gold isrichest.

Pale yellowclay.

Pale yellowclay; con-glomerate ofSandstone,Grit, andQuartz.

Orange coloredclay; conglo-merate;^ grey.Slate and redrit; decom-posing Gra-nitic Rock ;Sandstone andMagneticIron.

Depth ofSinning.

8 feet to 29 feet.

14 feet.

15 feet.

4 feet.

14 to 20 feet.

4 feet.

6 feet.

4 feet.

Nature ofBold.

Nuggety, water-worn.Site of 20 oz. nugget.

Small roughnuggets.

Very bright,nuggety,water-worn.

Nuggety,

water-worn.

Bright scaly.

Bright

granular.

Bright Granular.

Under-lying

or

Bed-rock.

Vertically cleaved Slate.

Vertically

cleaved

Slate.

Quartz.

Pale, glossySlate.

Drab claySlate, ferrugi-nous at thejoints, forming“ Bars.”

Grey, soft,glossy Slate,decomposinginto clay, andforming“ Bars.”

Pale Slate.

* Any deposit, containing gold in paying quantity , is termed by the diggers “ washing stuff.”