60 Notice of Mr. Schoolcraft’s View of 
“Mr. Schoolcraft appears to have made good use of the 
advantages which he enjoyed, and his countrymen are in- 
debted to him for a great amount of valuable eb 
He appears also to have studied the observations 
ding writers, and, with their works before him, it was. in this 
power to correct errors and to supply deficie et a 
He has prefixed an historical sketch which we presume 
will be acceptable to every reader. The Peoitelh as is well 
known were the original discoverers and setilers of the Mis- 
souri, and Illinois regions, which were embraced in their vast 
scheme of ee a chain of posts and settlements from the 
mouth t. Lawrence, to that of the Mississippi.— 
They. did = occupy the country of the Missouri and Illi- 
te till more than a century after the settlement of Que- 
c, and about a century before the present period. At 
that time, (1720) the liao mines were discovered by Philip 
Branvic Henne and M. L 
See eee LE tua mo ear sey wel 
pect ns of finding gold and 
the end of 3 wees half a reetithigy the country pasted 
to the hands of the Spaniards, and under their dominion, 
probably about forty years since, the principal mine was 
discovered by a man of the name of actgeen: owe from ‘him 
it mrs derived the name of Mine a Burton.* 
- It appears that the processes of mining: under the Span- 
Sens: were vecyimpattect as they obtai iy pes 
cent. of lead 
ttemp sea abibe See any other ar 
1e" employed only. shee open log furnace 
Moses Austin, Esq. a: native of Gariictrieaie, 
who had bebe sacirare sie lead mines, in Weythe Coun- 
ty in Virginia, obtained from the Spanish ‘government, a 
grant of a league square in the mining district in considera: 
tion of his introdueing 3 a Sons aend 9 oe ey = — 
~.* It seems he was hu I fi 
of the ground. This re carat man as gy 
gees: great age of o ne hundred an d iy mye sear, pear, 
mem © occasions, as a tenoy anc 
opm a ens Saxe, and at Breddvek's ‘eat oo “tebe 
