28 TRAVELS IN THE CONFEDERATION 



About 26 years ago another copper mine was opened 

 near Brunswick, in a hill consisting of the red soil 

 (red-shell) mentioned above, which from the color, it 

 was believed, must certainly be copper-bearing. A vein 

 located by the wand (ausgehender Gang) nearly four 

 inches wide was a sufficient guaranty, but it was found 

 that it fell away almost perpendicularly. Solid copper 

 was taken out in quantity, lying in a brown mould 

 containing copper as well. However, it was a low hill 

 and the Rariton was too near; the shaft filled with 

 water and could not be kept clear by a small hydraulic 

 apparatus. The owners became discouraged and gave 

 up the works, after taking out probably two tons, 

 mostly solid copper, at an outlay of more than 12,000 

 Pd. Current. 



From Boundbrook we came, by way of a beautiful 

 plain, hard by the mountain where Washington's army 

 camped in 1779; and further through an extremely 

 well-cultivated region along the Millstone River which 

 falls into the Rariton but, a narrow stream, is not 

 navigable. These waters contain a multitude of fish, 

 pike, gold-fish, and suckers.* Formerly shad also, in 

 numberless schools, came high up this river ; but dams, 

 of which many have been built in recent years, keep 

 back the shad and contribute appreciably to the pro- 

 visioning of the inhabitants along the banks. In the 

 Rariton, however, a law compels millers to leave a 40- 

 yd. passage way over dams during the running of the 



* Suckers are found also in the Delaware ; I have seen none 

 about York. They belong to the species carp. Forster + has 

 given the first exact description of them, from a specimen 

 caught in Hudson's bay, under the name cyprinus catostomus. 

 See Beytrdge zur Lander und Volkerkunde, III, 270. 



