104 Scientific Intelligence. 
Leaving our horses we called upon a young Turk, who superintends 
the mines in behalf of the Turkish government, and drank coffee wit 
him. He and his attendants live in a solitary house on the mountain 
side. 
On arriving at the entrance we took off our shoes and put on the 
heavy stout boots of the workmen. Two men entered with us, each 
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amount in the mine is not large, it being worked mainly with the oak 
pectation of reaching a rich deposit farther in the mountain. Since the 
Turks have subjected Koordistan to their rule, they have taken posses 
sion of these mines and are working them at the expense of the gov 
We were thirty-five minutes in riding through it. Its sides — 
nearly perpendicular or projecting over our heads, and from 
_ 600 feet in height. The widest place is not more than twenty feet, a 
_ I could almost touch both sides by reaching out my arms ®” 
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some parts the sun never shines, and on our retu pn 
een noon and one o’clock, and most of 
we 
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