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ht the moment I write , before me : it is in lumps from an ounce and a half to half an ounce and a pennyweight : it is in the state which nature formed it , amongst the sand and pebbles , which are washed from it : ' it is totally free from quartz orany other mixture . The description my friend gives of the place is briefly . this : the stream , from the banks and bed of which the gold is got , is about two feet wide , and runs in a sharp valley between two steep mountains , the one called Bally-an-vally , and the other Ball-na-sullogueabout four miles from Arklowon the WicklOw side r "

y , , this stream , gushing from the side of a hill , runs a course of about three miles between those two mountains , which ascend steeply on each side from its brink _ an'd terminates in a little bog or moor , where its waters mix with those of the swamp ; and in this bog , and along the bed of this streamlet , the search for gold has for some weeks past been directed with astonishing success . The miners ,

wno seeK it , are but very ill smiled in tne science ot mineralogy ; tney are tne simple peasantry of the neighbourhood , and either pursue their search by scrambling in the sand and mud , or by digging holes at random from the sides of the stream into the base of the mountains , of various depths , from two to five feef , where they find the metal in its rude state in the fissures of . the broken rock , or attached to lumps of quartz or petrified water . While the men pursue this laborious part of the work , the women carefully wash the bog-mud , sand , and exfoliated clay , in large wooden platters , and find the gold in small flat grains like

battered shot , but quite pure . In this wild manner only has the search hitherto gone forward ; and my friend assures-me , that a quantity worth twelve or fourteen thousand pounds has thus been procured within a very few weeks .. Before he went to the country , a country fellow came into his shop , and offered him for sale a quantity of about ten pounds weight , in grains and lumps , and demanded ) for it 4 I . per ounce ; but he did not then think fit to purchase it . Avastquantity has , however , been sold in town in various weights . In the last three weeks there has been an irregular encampment of the ; mountain tartars at theplace , to the number of about four thousand , interspered with plenty of ale and whisky tents . The gold-finders work day and night , and such is the )

avidity , thatthe labourers have quitted their harvest and consigned . t torotonthe surface of the earth in order to seek a golden harvest in its bowels ; even theser-. vain inaids- of all the surrounding farmers , and even of Arklow town , have quitted their places , and betaken themselves to the adventurous researches of this New Peru . My friend saw in the hands of a Mr . ATKINSON , agent to Lord CARYSFORT _ on whose estate part of this mine is situated , a lump of quartz , with an incrustation of pare gold attached to it , for which he offered him 80 guineas , but the sum

was refused . A weaver in the neighbourhood has had in use , for the last ten years , a lump of rich gold ore , which he used as a two pound weight ; and since which he had broken several pieces with an hammer , in order to adjust it to this weight , believing it to be nothing better than a lump of rich copper ore , with which the mountains in the neighbourhood abound . The famous mine of Ballymurtagh , working at present by CAHNACK and Co . being but seven miles from the place . The two pound weight , however , has been consigned to the , crucible , and turned out a treasure .

The discovery of this gold mine there is not new , though it has been a secret in , the family of the ROSILS , thereabouts , upwards of thirteen years , who found and sold considerable quantities of it from time to time ; but a junior branch , of the family , in company with an older friend , when he found a large lump of gold , claimed half , but was refused : and on threatening to disclose the family secret , received a desperate beating , which prompted him to fulfil his threats , end thus the matier got wind . The bowels of the adjacent mountains may beas they are conjectured to be

, , full of gold , from those unusually rich specimens that have been so abundantly found . The owners of the soil , and to whom the royalties belong , are Lord CARYSFORT , the Earl of ARRAN , and the Earl of ORMOND . I feel , that while I relate to you these circumstances , you will still feel somp qualms of incredulity ; but you may safely rest satisfied o £ the facts I state , vhicii caa be auasted by a tlieussnd affidavits , if nscesssry , O 0 i