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-Campbell's Tin Lode (Pahang Corporation), 

 showing Ancient Workings. 



the hands of real artists. 

 It then furnished the ma- 

 terial for those wonderful 

 pieces of goldsmith's work 

 that were saved by the low 

 price of the metal from the 

 melting-pot which works 

 of gold and silver conld 

 not escape, and which have 

 come down to ns as pre- 

 cious specimens of middle- 

 age art. The pewterers of 

 England, Flanders, and 

 Spain, particularly of Bar- 

 celona, then produced 

 works of real taste. The 

 most remarkable art - 

 works which remain to us 

 from that epoch were pro- 

 duced in France and Ger- 

 many, especially in Nu- 

 remberg, whose pots and 

 plates of tin were as fa- 

 mous as its dolls. Tin thus 

 had then all the honors 

 of the precious metals. It 

 still shares with the pre- 

 cious metals the advan- 

 tage of cleanliness, which 

 is set forth by many au- 

 thors, who recommend it 

 for the preservation of 

 medicines that would be 

 changed by contact with 

 any other metal. 



The importance of the 

 question of the source 

 whence tin was derived at 

 such a remote age was in- 

 dicated by M. Daubrey, 

 when he said, in the French 

 Academy of Sciences, that 

 this metal presented a 

 double interest : " On one 

 side, its use in the form 

 of bronze characterized a 



