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to and in a section already noted for its ])ure water, its genial and tempe- 

 ate climate and its generous and fruitful soil. May we not, witli just 

 pride and well-grounded confidence, offer this as tlie "land of promise" 

 to the agriculturist, the miner and the manufacturer of our own and other 

 lands ? 



We have here, in copper alone, a field seven times larger than that on 

 which England has expended her money and energies, and been growuig 

 rich for near two thousand years ; and while their operations were com- 

 menced within a stone's throw of the ocean wave, and have been stopped 

 at the depth of 3,100 feet by a degree of heat beyond human endurance, 

 here we may begin two or three thousand feet above water level, and mine 

 for ages unhindered by causes which have so long obstructed and now 

 closed operations in many of her most productive mines. 



