the Lead Mines of Missouri, §c. 63 
table productions of the country.. This region is well irri- 
ted, and very healthy, being possessed of a fine climate. 
I. Schoolcraft remarks, that during a residence. of ten 
months he never heard of a death ; the citace is free from 
ly seen to die without any apparent cause. Cats and dogs 
are taken with violent fits, which never fail, in a short time, 
to kill them.” ~ It is said that the inhabitants j impute these af. 
fections to the oe exhaled i in aa the lead, as the 
oa is not, poisonous either to Ent or anizcals.. The 
ampules it tothe the sulphat of with whi 
"The ‘carbonat of bavytor is cuneate pee 
have never heard that the sulphat is so. May not he od 
ing around the furnaces expose the-cattle to receive. lead in 
some of its forms, minutely divided—or if it be not active 
in the metallic state, both the oxids and the carbonat, which 
must of course exist around the furnaces, would be highly 
active and poisonous, Is it not possible also that some of 
the natural waters of the country may, in consequence of 
saline or acid j impregnations, dissolve some of the lead, and 
thus obtain saturnine qualities ?- We must allow, however, 
that we are not acquainted with the existence of as A natural 
water thus ee 
- Among the mineral roduetions of this region, certainly 
not the least aeninahle a ioned by Mr. Schooler raft, is 
the Iron mountain, where the ore is piled j in such enormous 
as to constitute the entire. southern extremity ofa 
lofty ridge, which is elevated five or six hundred feet above 
the plain: the ore is the micaceous oxid,: and is” 
yield ge eable ii 
her isanother body. of i iron ore sia miles #8 st of the 
| Mountain, scarcely inferior to that. ioned abov 
and i it appears that several other beds exist in 
einity. ; 
Zine is abundant, but as thie ge is the sul I it 
very valuable, It is not poctenes tee damit 
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