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Raspe, an eminent literary and scientific Hanoverian, was employed 

 on the spot. 



The precipitation of copper from the salts contained in mine- 

 water,'^ — observed at the Chaceivater (Wheal Busy) mine by Mr. 



(London, 1788), and be continued his active literary labours without inter- 

 mission. In 1782 or 1783 he bad some appointment as overseer of mines in 

 Cornwall, which be soon after abandoned." 



Gentleman'' s Magazine, cci (1856), p. 588. 



" At Huel Rock in Saint Agnes there has been found a metallic vein, 

 nine feet wide, and twenty yards beneath the surface. The constituent parts 

 of this ore, although experiments had been made upon it, were still un- 

 known. Mr. Easpe, who now (1786) lives in Cornwall, is the first who 

 discovered this unknown ore to be sulphuret of tin."^Klaproth, Mineralogical 

 and Chemical History of the Fossils of Cormvall, p. 21. 



" Mr. Easpe, who resided in Cornwall about 40 years ago, discovered a 

 vein of the sulj)huret of tin from 3 to 5 inches wide, some tweijty yards 

 beneath the surface, in Huel Eock." 



Michell, Manual of Mineralogy (Truro, 1825), p. 73. 



" One of the oldest Mining Captains of Dolcoath often spoke of the 

 wonderful chemical experiments made in the Assay- Office by Mr. Easpe." 



Captain Charles Thomas (late Manager of Dolcoath), MS. 



" In 1861 the late Marquis of Breadalbane permitted me to examine, in 

 the Muniment-room at Taymouth Castle, a Eeport on his mine of Tyndrum, 

 made by Mr. Eudolph Erich Easpe on the 10th of December, 1791. The 

 technicalities of this document afforded evident traces of their Cornish 

 origin. 



" In 1794 Easpe accepted the office of manager of Mines at Muckross, 

 in the County of Donegal ; and he died in Ireland in the same year." 



Gentleman's Magazine, cci (1856), p. 590. 



"In 1785 the first edition of Baron Munchausen'' s Narrative of his 

 Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia was published in London by 

 Smith. A second edition came out in the following year, printed at Oxford, 

 but with the same publisher's name. ... A third edition published in Lon- 

 don in the same year, by Kearsley, bore the additional title of Gtdliver 

 revived. In 1787 and 1788 a fourth and fifth edition appeared in England, 

 still without any name of author or compiler. 



" In 1787 the work first issued in a German form, with some additional 

 stories under the auspices of the poet Burger. . . . 



" In 1824, after Biirger's death, Karl von Eeinbard, a friend of Burger's, 

 first mentioned the' true author of Munchausen. ' The Collection had ' — he 

 writes — 'for its compiler the late Professor Easpe, ivho jnihlished it after his 

 flight from Cassel to England.' " — Ibid., p. 590. (Abridged). 



" Perhaps thirty years ago, the late Captain William Petherick, Manager 

 of Dolcoath, informed me that Baron Munchausen's Travels had been written 

 by a German whilst he performed the duties of Storekeeper at that mine." 

 Henwood, Gentleman's Magazine, ccii (1857), p. 2. 



* The difference between such slightly impregnated streains as issue 

 from the lodes and rocks, and the rich solutions, obtained by lixiviating cal- 

 cined ore, must not be overlooked. 



