itt Bringter on the Region of the Mississijypi, ^-c, 



abundant ; their-ores exhibit much variety, and the hunters 

 relate that there are a variety of other minerals. 



Iron Ores. 



Iron ores of several varieties are found in great quantity, 

 between the currents and White river. The Wachitta, eigh- 

 teen miles below the hot spring, affords, in a place called 

 the cove, five points of hills, where the very richest iron ore 

 is gathered in enormous heaps ; it yields the best of Iron. 



Some cellular brownish red ore, which occurs in very large 

 bodies, and mineralized by about thirty per cent, of oxigen, 

 is likewise found in this cove, and in many other places, 

 particularly on the north side of the mouth of Little Mis- 

 souri, (a fork of Wachitta.) 



About one hundred and fifty miles up this Little Missouri 

 river, there are inexhaustible quarries of sidphate of lime, 

 of several varieties; it is likewise found in the cove, within 

 two hundred yards of the magnetic iron ore. Above the 

 ore, and not one hundred yards off, is an extensive bed of 

 common talc, (mica.^ Ed.) the leaves are of an extraordinary 

 size, not less than five inches by seven. 



Cove of Wachitta. 



The Cove of Wachitta is formed by a circular mountain, 

 shaped hke a horse shoe. This mountain consists of spar- 

 ry iron stone and heavy spar ; it encloses an area of nine 

 miles of surface of very fertile soil, traversed with two 

 very fine streams fed by numerous springs. In this valley 

 there are trees of an enormous size, and of a very great va- 

 riet\-. This cove faces on the Wachitta river, and offers a 

 charming perspective. It is surrounded with ])itch pines of 

 <he extraordinary height of one hundred and sixty feet. 



Clays, Hones, ^c. 



This valley affords all kinds of earths of the very best 

 quality for every kind of furnaces and crucibles, for glasi? 

 manufactories and iron founderies. There is petunzc or 

 kaolin of a very superior quality, for porcelain. Material? 

 for glass are equally good and plenty. A quarry of ra- 

 zor hones (Lapis Coticularis of Wailerius) has been opened 

 for several years past within a few miles from this place i 



