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new deposits, and more efficient and economical 

 methods of working them. Our coal, our iron, lead, 

 and gold are inexhaustible, and must give us im- 

 mense resources when fully developed. 



Look at England, and inquire the sources of her 

 wealth and power. Lock up in her hills and valleys 

 her coal and iron and all her other mineral wealth, 

 and you have taken from her one great element 

 of her power. It is the mineral wealth in that little 

 island, developed by the science of her distinguished 

 men, that enables her to manufacture almost for the 

 world. Her coal moves the thousand looms and 

 ponderous hammers that load her ships with fabrics 

 and swell her revenues. It has been referred to as 

 a striking illustration of the influence of mineral 

 wealth, that fourteen of her large towns, from Exeter 

 to Carlisle, are built along the strike of the New 

 Red Sandstone. To that formation belong the brine- 

 springs and beds of gypsum, and immediately be- 

 neath is found the coal. 



Her scientific men have scanned her soils and 

 cliffs beneath them, and in them they have found 

 the means of civilization and comfort at home, and 



