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even a lichen to be found.* I was almoft 

 fuffocated the whole time I was in the 

 mines, and a day or two afterwards, when 

 on my way to Beaumaris, the wind blow- 

 ing over the mountain, I found the fumes 

 extremely difagreeable at the diftance of at 

 leaft a mile from the works, fo powerful 

 is this poifonous vapour. I was much fur- 

 prized to fee the miners appear fo health- 

 ful as they do. Their complexions are in 

 general fomewhat fallow, but certainly lefs 

 fo than I could have fuppofed it pofiible, 

 considering the kind of employment they 

 are engaged in for near twelve hours every 

 day. 



* Since this account was written, I have been 

 informed, that the proprietors and agents of the 

 mines have made vaft and expenfive improvements 

 in agriculture in this neighbourhood, and that they 

 entertain hopes that they can ftiil cultivate the 

 mountain. 



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