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OUR "GLENROCK" ESTATE.
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which
the ancient miners have been so extensively working. In short, all down
this gorge, the surface has been deeply cut and turned over.*
Still lower down the almost perpendicular face of the hill, are some very deep trenches, partly filled with debris of
quartz, broken up ages ago. At this spot, No. 1 Tunnel has been driven
about sixty feet, and a slender branchlet of quartz has been
interÂsected. Here again we must cross-cut to reach the main reef. This
is now to be known as the " Korum-ber Tunnel." Below this is a tunnel
which it has been deemed advisable to abandon because a more promising
spot has since been found for the work.
Still
descending, we reach a new tunnel, driven on another reef, about two
feet thick. But as distance is gained, the vein is increasing in
dimensions. This is called the " Jungle Tunnel," and has penetrated
twenty feet.
After
a rather arduous walk through the heavy jungle, the commencement of the
coffee plantations is reached. Here is situated Tunnel No. 3, or, as it
will now be called, the " Plantation Tunnel." The intention is to cut
both of the reefs, of which one has already been intersected, and the
driving is conÂtinued towards the second. This level has reached
*
By the term " deeply," in reference to ancient workings', I mean that
there has been something more done than mere surface scratching. But,
of course, nothing to compare with the complete and systematic work of
the modern miner.
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