138 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
The works are much more extensive than I expected to find them. 
called upon the superintendant, Mr. John Young, who treated us 
very courteously. The buildings are nearly all new, the old ones hav- 
ing been mostly removed. The loads of ore are brought down by the 
road to a level with the top of the furnace where it is separated into 
coarser and finer piec The process of extracting the metal from 
the ore is very simple he ore is placed in the furnaces where a 
gentle and regular heat is applied. As it diffuses itself through the 
densed and falls by its own weight, trickles down and out at little pipes 
leading from the bottom of the chambers of the furnace and empties 
not to approach them too soon, as the air is charged with the quicksil- 
sure to be salivated. 
After examining the works and the different processes we visited the 
mines, which are one and a fourth miles from the works. We pro- 
cured an order from the superintendant for that purpose, as no person 
an angle of about 20(?) degrees. About hal up we e 
to a locality of sulphate of lime, from which some fine specimens 
ave been taken. (I also found some speci of fluor spar an 
chalcedony near the soda Spring.) After a fatiguing jour 
large as a ma ‘ 
We soon commenced our explorations from chamber to chamber, 
which appeared to extend ina most intricate manne almost every 
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direction. Sometimes we descended a pole almost perpendicular for 
fifty feet, with merely little notches cut for the toes, and at other times 
ascended them. We finally came where the miners were at work; 
we heard the ringing of the drills and the strokes of the hammer, 
