28 Bringier on the Region of the Mississippi, sc: 
Other facts respecting the Cove of Wachitta. 
Since I was at the Cove of Wachitta, I understand that 
an Indian has found a piece of native copper of the size and 
shape of an ear of Indian corn. He melted and doubtless 
used the copper, for some of the Cherokees on the Arkan- 
sas are. tolerable silver-smiths. — Pyrites is found here in 
abundance, so oe native copperas, or vitriol; this forms a 
Rebeca art of some veins running through a large 
of a mii Ik white te and apparently talcose earth, which the 
blow pipe, ‘even when aided by borax, does not t affect. 
~ Burr Mill Stones. 
On the hills surrounding the Cove there are among the 
Spathose iron stone, and the fibrous and compact heavy 
spar, some of the siliceous stones with which the French Burr 
mill stones. are ade. _ They are Ree by a good 
3 this person ¢ ‘to 
ones. aces inches 
‘Twenty cae oe Sasen the opie hacibeess that and the 
Arkansas, one hundred yards to the left of the road, after. 
crossing the third fork of the Saline river, and immediately 
on its banks, there is an acclivity leading to a perpendicular 
wall of about one hundred feet in in height; this is composed of 
a black slate, (aluminous s shistus) rather ix in its posi- 
tion. The observer, on see es few: of the loose slates 
under his feet, will disco 
sand tons of Alum. It is the kind. called” Feather Alum 
(plumose alam.~Bi) iti isin, mee nee in with 
of long needle shaped 
crystals og whith betwreen thatof hameen ape silk 
