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fathoms in length and depth, and from Its being narrow above 

 and widening below, it has obtained from the miner the name of a; 

 horse. The phrase on meeting with it is, ' the load has taken horse.'. 

 The riches of a mine have in many instances proved the cause of 

 great speculation, and consequent disappointment to those con- 

 cerned in the mines immediately contiguous east and west, and on 

 the same vein or veins. This has been but too unfortunately veri- 

 fied in the instance of East Towan Mine, which joins Huel Towan 

 on the east; in tlie latter, which has during the last 10 or 12 

 years, from one large and unusually continuous bunch of yellow 

 copper ore (the discovery of which was the result of a search of at 

 least 30 years at a greater expense) yielded a very large profits 

 There were 50 fathoms of good ore-ground in the vein at about QQ 

 fathoms under the adit, which adit is 42 fathoms from the surface, 

 or in the technical language of the miner, from grass. The bunch 

 of copper ore continued to that depth from near the adit level, and 

 as in length it extended east towards East Towan Mine, expecta- 

 tions were raised that the load In passing through that mine vv^ould 

 prove equally rich. Great speculation and expense of course 

 ensued ; but in vain. For It was found that in several of the levels 

 in Huel Towan, the ore ceased within a very few fathoms of East 

 Towan Mine, and In some places as suddenly as If it had been cut 

 away by a hatchet. This was not the effect of a cross vein, but 

 purely one of those accidental circumstances to which copper loads 

 are very liable. The ore of Huel Towan is of a remarkably bright 

 yellow, and generally pretty compact, but not hard. 



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