Eevad Mines, tote of Hampshire County, Mass. 251 
pearances, aad the shaft is now almost filled with gio rl 
earth and stones. The gangue is quartz and sulphate of ba-_ 
rytes, and contains galena, pyritous copper, and blende, dis- 
seminated ugh the matrix. The vein is several feet 
wide, and may be traced some rods in length by the quartz 
Suen ED ay scattered along the surface of the round. 
e second is one mile and a half from the first, directly 
south, on an eminence of granite eight or ten rods ong, pro- 
truding itself above the geest. The direction of the vein is 
or three inches wide on the surface, ve widens as it | 
into the rock ; the gangue is sulphate of barytes, ame 
lamellar, and 4 a pearly lustre. Galena, along with pyritous 
copper, is disseminated throughout the barytes, and i is very 
abundant on the surface, but grows scarce, as the vein is follow- 
ed down into the rock; which, however, has been done but a 
few feet. There the vein is nearly one foot wide, and is al- 
most wholly barytes, with only very little galena, or any. 
er mineral. Whether the vein is rich in ores deep do wn in the 
rock can be determined only by actual examination. 
Hatfield Vein—marked 3.0n the ae 
This vein is in Hatfield, a mile or two west of the t 
sixty rods north of the road leading from Hatfield to Williams. 
burgh, ‘whet it is intersected by the road from Me to 
No ton. There the sienitic sod ae nite brea vpeiabta we 
phate 0 is se 
with it, and may be traced on the waste ieee Fda 6 or more, 
until it is concealed by the earth. The direction of the vein 
is north-west and south-east, and has had two shafts sunk in- 
to it during its course ; the first was made near 2 Th the 
vein is first seen in the rock; it is fifteen feet deep. 
the vein was one foot wide on the surface and thr 
bottom. The second shaft was sunk at the Ret ste the 
vein and rock are concealed by the earth. At this place, the 
vein is four feet wide on the surface, and seven at the bottom, 
twenty feet deep. The sulphate of barytes is found amor- 
