To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times. Sir, —The following extract from a letter dated 20th April, which I have received from Mr. Walter Mantell, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Otago, may be worth inserting in your paper. Mr. Mantell states that—" The quartz rock brought down by the rivers flowing to the sea along the ' ninety mile beach' is identical with the auriferous quartz rock of South Carolina. My authority is Dr. Shepard, Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College of South Carolina and Massachusets, and Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in Amherst College. I have received a specimen from him selected from those collected by me in 1848 : of this I enclose you a chip." Mr. Mantell was employed by Government as Commissioner for the purchase of the Middle District of this Island from the Natives in 1848-9, and on his journeys collected numerous geological specimens, all of which I believe were forwarded to eminent scientific men at home. I shall be glad to shew to any one curious in geology the portion of specimen above referred to. I am, Sir, your's obediently, J. W. H. Lyttelton, May 3rd, 1853.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 122, 7 May 1853, Page 11
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