46 THE king's visit to the ATHENiEUM. 



pursue its course : here it lies almost horizontal, is in 

 many places six or eight feet wide, and large chambers 

 are formed within by its working, round which the 

 miners are seen driving their wedges and picks into the 

 rock, and detaching the sparkling ore to load the little 

 rail road cars before alluded to. The manner in which 

 the ore lies in the vein is finely open to the view, and 

 the flukans, (as they are termed,) which change the 

 direction of the vein, are sometimes also to be seen. 



The produce of this mine partakes of the singularity 

 of its position and situation. Beautiful crystals of 

 anatose were found here two years since. Rhombic 

 quartz has been a still later discovery, and at this mo- 

 ment they are working out flakes of pearl spar, crusted 

 with copper ore, in the form of large lance-heads, or, 

 as Captain John has christened them, "gothic arches." 



We hope our readers will soon be personally ac- 

 quainted with " Captain John" and " the Virtuous 

 Lady," both of whom have our hearty good wishes. 



CJe perambulator, Numter V^ l^ection il. 



MR. BALL'S PICTURE OF THE KING'S VISIT TO THE 

 ATHENiEUM. 



Well may we hope for the immortality of Mr. Ball's 

 picture, when we consider how many of us it will also 

 immortahze ! Then shall our Athenaeum be as fami- 

 liar in classic memory as the " School of Athens," and 

 the Recorder of Plymouth go down to posterity with 

 the Royal Reformer of England. To the naval world 

 it must ever remain a subject of interest, since its pro- 

 minent features are those of the Sailor King, and of 

 him, to whose philosophic and philantropic zeal our 

 ships will owe their safety from the thunder-bolt. 



As to the merits of the picture in a critical point of 

 view, we must, in the first place, admit the extreme 

 difficulty of giving artistical treatment to a subject of 

 the kind, where the chief purpose is a series of por- 

 traits, and the chief desire of every sitter a prominent 



