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man, whole objedi: it was to eftabliili a fettlement, wliicli 
he knew mufi: for fome time depend for fiipport on the 
im|X3rtation of the principal neceffaries of hfe. 
It is fiippofed that metals of various kinds abound in 
the foil on which the town is placed. A convi6l, who 
had formerly been ufed to work in the StafFordfliire 
lead mines, declared very pofitively, that the ground 
which they were now clearing, contains a large quantity 
of that ore : and copper is fuppofed to lie under fome 
rocks which v/ere blown up in finking a cellar for 
the public flock of fpirituous liquors. It is the opinion 
of the Governor himfelf that feveral metals are a6tually 
contained in the earth hereabouts, and that mines may 
hereafter be worked to great advantage : but at prefent he 
ftrongly difcourages any fearch of this kind, very judi- 
cioufly difcerning, that in the prefent fituation of his 
people, which requires fo many exertions of a very 
different nature, the difcovering of a mine v/ould be 
the greatefi evil that could befal the fettlement. In 
fome places where they dug, in making wells, they 
found a fubftance which at Brit \V3.s taken for a metal, 
but which proving perfedfly refractory in a very firong 
and long continued heat, has (ince been concluded to be 
black lead. Tlie kind of pigment called by painters 
Spanilli brown, is found in great abundance, and the 
white 'Clay with which the natives paint thcmfelves is 
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