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chain of the Highlands, in that part of it which is called the 

 Chester Mountain. 



Adverting in the next place to the metalliferous veins of the 

 other great parallel range of primary hills, which includes in one 

 continuous chain the Wallkill, Schooley's, and Musconetcong 

 Mountains, we are forcibly struck with the fact of their relative 

 fewness, when compared with the numerous and extensive in- 

 jections which traverse the more southeastern belt, above de- 

 scribed. 



Upon the Walkill or Hamburg Mountain magnetic iron ore 

 may be occasionally met with in the soil, while excavations made 

 at various spots have also brought to light small bodies of the ore, 

 but no veins of considerable magnitude. 



Advancing along this chain towards the southwest, we meet 

 with similar indications of ore in the neighbourhood of Stanhope, 

 and also south of this, in the vicinity of Flanders, where many 

 loose fragments of it occur in the soil, especially in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bartley's Forge. About three-fourths of a mile north of 

 the forge a small excavation for ore may be seen, which, it is 

 said, yielded a mineral of good quality. An opening has also 

 been made about a mile from Mount Olive, but it did not deve- 

 lope a vein of any magnitude. 



Nearly a mile and a half northeast of Drakestown, on Schooley's 

 Mountain, a digging was lately made (summer of 1838), which 

 produced some ten or twelve tons of ore, of a highly magnetic 

 character, pronounced to be of good quality : but it did not lead 

 to the developement of a regular and solid vein. 



Upon the same mountain, and about a mile and a half east of 

 Hacketstown, some ore is visible in the soil, but of too quartzose 

 a nature to produce a good iron. The diggings which were made 

 at this spot did not succeed in disclosing a regular vein. 



Upon the mountain, a few furlongs to the west and northwest 

 of the Heath House, ore in considerable abundance strews the 

 surface of the fields. A portion of the mineral here is pretty 

 largely contaminated with hornblende, augite, and other foreign 

 substances, which do not, however, materially interfere with the 

 reduction of this species of ore into iron, except where their quan- 

 tity is considerable. Much of the ore of the same locality, is dis- 



