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The Ufes AE SIDES the Ufe of Minerals in Phyfic, they are defigned 
of Minerals. 
for feveral other Ends, as wellas for Ornament; but their chief 
Value is in Money, which is become the common and moft 
prudent Method of Exchange: Nor are their Advantages in 
: Utenfils to be forgotten, whether they are defigned for the 
common Purpofes of Life, or made into Inftruments neceffary for the 
Improvements of Arts and Sciences. 
In the various and different Forms of Minerals, as well as their Qua- 
lities, we find fuch evident Footfteps of Divine Wifdom, as leave us no 
room to fufpeét, that they are the Effect of blind Chance, tho’ formed in 
the deep Receffes of the Earth. 6 — 
Men have univerfally confented to ftamp the greateft Value upon Gold: 
And tho’ they have as -univerfally afligned the hotteft Climates, as the 
moft natural to ripen, and to give Colour to, this illuftrious Ore ; yet, in 
this warm Ifland, neither the Soil upon the Surface, nor at any Depth in 
the Earth, at leaft in general, as far as Two (1) hundred Feet deep, 
give any promifing Indications of either Gold or Silver. 
Gold found However, we have fome Caufe to believe, that we are not intirel 
in Barbates. aeAitute of the former ; for there was found in Colonel el Alleyne’s 
Eftate, on the Surface of the Earth, a Piece of Ore, which, upon Trial 
in England, proved very pregnant with Gold ; but, tho’ diligent Search 
was made by digging and otherwife, there was no more difcovered. 
There is but one other Inftance, that I can venture to mention with any 
Certainty ; and that is, a fmall Piece of Gold, now in the Poffeflion of 
Fames Bruce, E{q; which was extracted from fome Ore {ent to England 
from hence by Dr. Bruce : But as that Gentleman died before the Expe- 
riment was made, itis not well known in what Part of the Ifland he 
found it. 
There 
(1) There is not a Parifh in the Ifland, nor fcarce a large Eftate, but hath a Well dug init: Anda great 
many of thefe are very deep ; efpecially one in the Eftate of Francis M‘Mahen, Efg; which is above Two 
hundred Feet deep. 
