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lena may be gained in eight days, with good 

 mule or water-carriage the whole distance. 

 The best mine in the Bega de Supia ^in the 

 opinion of M. Le Roche, who was for some 

 time director of them, and is an excellent mi- 

 neralogist, having studied the subject scienti- 

 fically) is the mine of Sachafruta, about a 

 quarter of a league from the village called 

 Bega de Supia. Into this mine was an exca- 

 vation cut horizontally for about forty yards, 

 and then a shaft about fifty yards perpendicu- 

 lar ; in extracting the ore from the lower le- 

 vel of which, the shaft filled with water, and 

 stopped the further working of the mine. M. 

 Le Roche inspected it whilst worked, and ob- 

 tained specimens of every part. He said the 

 mine was particularly rich, and the load two 

 yards thick ; that it would not require an adit 

 of more than two hundred yards to drain the 

 mine, and that the cost would not exceed 

 three thousand dollars. The ore extracted 

 would yield about seventy per cent., with 

 every reason to expect that pure silver would 

 be met with ; as, amongst the last of the load 

 brought out, pieces of silver were found in 

 that state. Since the opening, the mine has 



