| Bringier on the Region of thé Mississippi, &e. 25 
sighiprsix pen cent. of lead; and this lead is said to have 
afforded cent. of alter. But the other lead mines, 
now porting near Herculaneum and St. Genevieve, produce 
only one-fourth Der & fen which is not separated, as it would 
‘not defray the exp 
e galena or a ore is found disseminated in blocks of 
different sizes, at a depth of about nine feet, covered with a 
stratum of seven feet, composed of rubbish, very much de- 
composed, and. strongly impregnated with oxid of iron, 
under which, large blocks and small pieces of what Walle- 
rius calls. orneus Trapezius, are found intermixed in about 
equal | ro ig with. white selenitic spar, (sulphat of Ba- 
rytes, ieces of about the same size, buried in the 
rubbish before’ ncutiobar Noho thei ore, i ihe, eoneral) ay 
and cae digs. on an extraordinary occasion, two thousand 
pounds a day; when another will not dig fifty pounds. At 
mine “Chobeh éllay,* the workmen who lease, each of them 
so many square yards per week or per day, all work on 
their own a ihe and sell their ore at two dollars per hun- 
dred, to the ounderers who are proprietors of the mineral 
land. The ore is simply pikes on Fk logs of wood, which 
reduces all the metal it can, and e cinders - (since a few 
years only) are ‘put a fietwaeds. tite a air furnace, wh 
they are reduced into slags, after yieldin ing another ride 9 
tion of the lead etree # in the scorias. e ore of | this 
mine yields ae eight Lee cent. of lea 
‘o the n mine Chobohillay, the shale face of the 
country ewbibits: fe aneee of metals. In 1812 I had ga- 
thered numerous Hqcete while merely crossin the coun 
try. Unfortunately they all went under a raft, wi : 
= Cape Girsidead? ‘as I was descending the Mis 
I would advise adventurers to explore the mountains 
een the waters of St. Francis, high up near its sources, 
and near and even above the head waters. of Big and Little 
Black river, Between these waters and White river are ; 
} could: be extracted. 
"4 A Choetna?’ waite dot StF Rendle 
Choe ame reiiccia 
ee is sitoated;. Kopeang (omeks) aken Seen ro 
Tt Nar 8 
