* 
*t Our expedition is headed by an old officer who is appointed to con- 
ductthe whole. * * #* am the second in command, as offi- 
learnt their trade in the Ural. A carpenter and blacksmith, a 
fifteen or sixteen hands to dig, in all about twenty to twent 
* * Th 
acting as paymaster. ‘Then two gold-washers (Quartermen) rage 
nd ; 
a ne 
individuals. * 
thirty or forty dollars a day, and as yet has not paid a cent] Living is 
rather cheap in these regions; I might live conveniently for about five 
cents a day, but as it is, what with a cook, tea, wine, and otker things 
more or less Juxuries, it amounts to about fifteen. 
ck, a 
agnetic iron-sand, locally termed Schliech. The gold occurs only in 
minute particles. Since the 14th of June, I have examined about sixty 
valleys, and in all found gold, but as I have said, scattered very spar- 
ingly and in small grains.” 
2. Notice of aremarkable Spring or fountain in Hollis, now Phips- 
Tg, Maine, about seven miles from Saco an ennebunk ; (com- 
s 
the lower meeting house in the town above named. 
By accurate measurement the basin is sixty feet long, twenty-five 
Upon a smooth bottom, is disposed to start back. When boiling the 
ion that of the 
become 
so hard that it is difficult to press into it with a sharp pointed pole. When 
~ boiling ceases in one place it breaks through in: another; and it 
| : a 
Wien DL Inder f 
Be Weather over the snow. The sand is used for plastering and for sharp- 
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e expedition costs the government about ~ 
