ABSTRACT
Crossing the river Salate, and emerging from the hills to the west, they came upon talc schist with bands of steatite and dykes of trap, while crystalline quartz nearly translucent was plentiful; but, as it showed no traces of iron, they were not encouraged to prospect. On the first of June 1870, Messrs. Button and Sutherland started from Lydcnburg and descended the Quathlamba through a chasm formed by a great dyke of trap, 15 miles east of the pass used in 1869, and amid scenery grand beyond description. While passing up the mountain valley of this rivulet -people began to observe strata of clay slate and reefs of quartz in the mountain sides. And one sharp peak and then another which people concluded to be those of the Yzerberg' or Iron mountain appeared before people on the right of the valley.
