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26th. Thf. fecond trial called the New Vein, which we will 

 call the C^ottage Vein, offers more facility than the former, but 

 in return the ore found here is not fo rich. In order to conceive 

 the matter dlflinQly, one muft obferve, that the beds or lavers 

 of the mountains are inclined in this place about forty-five 

 degrees, and a vein of quartz, almoft perpendicular to the horizon, 

 cuts them very regularly between the vein of quartz and the 

 layers of the mountain. On the fide hanging of thefe a light 

 layer of argillaceous or potter's clay covers the vein and travels with 

 it in its defcent. This vein has not been broached ; but among the 

 beds of Hate which defcend at its right, there are two totally 

 pyritous in which a gallery was commenced. Three layers of 

 pyrites are here worked out as copper ore, and really, though 

 they are very fulphureous, they contain, notwithftanding, metal 

 fufficient.to fupport and cherifh the hopes of a miner. 



27th. At an hundred feet perpendicular height above this 

 trial, near an half-finifhed pavilion called the Cottage, the fame 

 pyrites are found again in beds of flate like thofe we have juft 

 fpoken of. Every motive induces us to believe that they are a 

 continuation of the fame vein, and we are of opinion that it would 

 be expedient, for the purpofe of afcertaining this point, to lay 

 open that fpot completely, and examine whether or not the vein 

 of quartz, of which we have already fpoken, is to be found 

 there. 



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