1874.] 



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[Lesley. 



No. 5. Old Town * Banks, are shown on Local Map, (fig. 13,) ; 

 two old open cuts, one on each side of the main road, and groups of 

 shafts, principally north of the road. Tliere is a decided ore-sliow on 

 the surface for 470 yards. Opposite the new church, an old shaft reached 

 a maximum depth of 110 feet, touching "a vein of ore." (Booking.) 

 Contradictory accounts are now given of this work. Some say, that 

 the quantity of ore was enormous, timbers 30 feetf long being used to 

 support the chambers, the ore dipping steeply N. W. ; and that massive 



Figs. 13, 14. Fig. 17. 





la-^a. 



ore stands in the sides and at the bottom of the deserted mine. Others 

 say, that the ore mass, 25 feet thick, descended vertically with undimin- 

 ished size when the shaft was abandoned. It is may be a deposit in 

 one of the ancient caverns or cross fissures of the Limestone Formation. 

 Shafts sunk to depths of 30 and 50 feet sometimes went through clays 

 without ore. Mr. Bocking sunk one 80 feet deep to find a mass of ore 

 said to exist between three old shafts, but found nothing. The surface 

 wash ore is sometimes only 2 or 3 feet deep ; in other places 20 feet. No 



* Called Town Bank, on the Local Map. 



t The rocks of the neighborhood dip 25° to 35° S. E. 



