228 COPPER MINES. 



rich, yielding sixty and seventy per cent, 

 of copper. The mine has been very badly 

 worked, but with a small capital might 

 be put in excellent order. The owner 

 asked ten thousand dollars for the purchase 

 of the mine, which we considered too 

 much, as it is three to four days' mule 

 carriage from Bogota, where at present 

 there is no very great consumption of cop- 

 per. I have no doubt, however, that even- 

 tually this mine will become of great value, 

 as there are many hundred tons of smelt- 

 ed ore, which, if properly passed through 

 the furnace, would yet yield from twenty 

 to thirty per cent, of copper. After this 

 examination we dined with the owner, and 

 got back to the curate's by eight in the 

 evening. 



Oct. 12th. Returned to Liva, and found 

 the square crowded with country people, 

 come from all the surrounding plains ; it was 



