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	lines are termed "makes" by the miners) have in this manner been enlarged. Numbers of quartz occurrences having at one time two walls showing evidence of friction have only one now on this account. I noticed also that "makes" of quartz usually finish or rather go into the " walls-together " phase of lode structure in lines parallel to the strike of the rock layers. This is due to the less resistance offered in the bedding planes of the strata to the force that fractured the country in the vicinity. I noticed also that what are locally known as " droppers " are simply quartz veins crossing a drainage channel. These veins form points of obstruction, filter packs, as it were, to the drainage Hi the channel, and, being more or less nearly horizontal, they are found occa­sionally to be rich in coarse gold. As in Ballarat East, they are, in some instances, the lines along which the secondary movements have taken place during the settlement of the country. The country on one side of such a drain has moved with a sliding motion on the country of the other side, and veins of quartz stored previous to this have been broken and shifted, as in [a) Fig. 6.
	I As usual in most mining fields, one line of country has received the most attention in Maldon. This was opened on the hills a couple of miles to the north of the town, and followed southward along the eastern side of the town for about two miles and a half. A company, known as the " Old Nuggety," opened quartz formations belonging to this line in a region to the north of the town, situated in the bow formed by the outcropping granite. These formations are said to have