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128 secure for their day’s work from 1 oz. to 20 ozs. Our assumption that the bag was not damaged before it fell from the pack-saddle is borne out by the fact that no gold had been found further along the track. The gold lay in a patch, not very wide, but about forty yards long, evidently so formed by horses passing to and fro, who kicked the main deposit as it lay on the ground, and scattered the gold along the road.”