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ACCOUNT OF THE 
Black-lead Mine in Borrondale, 
CUMBERLAND. 
BY 
MR. JONATHAN OTLEY. 
(Read Dec. 27th, 1816.) 
To Mr. Dalton. 
SIR, 
THE following account of the Black- 
lead mine in Borrowdale contains some particulars not 
generally known: if you think it worthy the attention of 
the Literary and Philosophical Society, I shall he obliged 
by your communicating it. 
I remain, Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
JONATHAN OTLEY. 
OF the first discovery of this mine we have 
no account; but from a grant made in the be- 
ginning of the seventeenth century, it ap- 
pears to have been known before that time. 
The manor of Borrowdale is said to have be- 
longed to the abbey of Furness, and having, at 
the dissolution of that monastery, inthe reign of 
