Lesley.] 



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[Jan 



No. 5. Old Bank. — Lies 2| miles south 18° west from Boiling Springs, 

 on the edge of good and sufficient washing stream. The hank is now 

 worked, and makes a large excavation. The rough sketch in Fig. 7, 

 shows the size of the bank, depth, tramroads, washer-engine, etc. The 

 main hole is 70 feet below the surface at its southern end. The floor 

 is solid ore, and on the south face shows a beautiful arch of ore. In 



no. 7. 



WAStpe/T 



WASH ORE JDUMR., 



LUW ORE DUMP 



OLD BANK CARLISLE IRONWORKS. 

 Scale. WS ftct tj/ asi t/ic/i 



addition to these 70 feet of wash and lump ore in sight, the dump has 

 been sunk 28 feet through ore, leaving solid rock ore still below, making 

 a total of lOOXfeet. 



The quality of the ore is very high. It is used at Boiling Springs Fur- 

 nace in the proportion of 75 to 85 per cent, to 15 to 25 per cent, of lime- 



