ABSTRACT
Numbers retamed in disgust, but others, with or without colonial aid, made efforts, and so far sixty-one succeeded as to shew that the quartz reefs were really and richly auriferous—but the effectual working of these reefs was beyond the power of individuals, or even of companies with small capital and unprovided with machinery, Others more fortunate have at last been rewarded for their continued and persevering labours, by the discovery of alluvial diggings, where they are now verifying the predictions of the HenMauch in the most practical manner, by each man making his own pile, and letting the surplus gold they occasionally dispose of spread abroad the proof of richness in the place it came from. Mr. Button sunk a shaft near Lydenburg and found gold in small quantity, hut his good genius led him to the reef at Eorsteling, where according to the latest accounts he has now about 3,000 tons of rich quartz upon the surface.
