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two miles south, and not far from the " Yellow Meeting House." One 
of them lies on the east side of the road on the hill, in limestone, and 
the other appears to be in quartz veins, which traverse the strata. It 
could not be examined without some difficulty, as the shaft was filled 
with brush. Fragments of quartz and ore were scattered at the mouth 
of the mine. The ore is a mixture of fine grained galena and yellow 
blende. Fragments of several inches in diameter were obtained, show- 
ing that the vein was several inches wide, in som-e parts. The ore is 
said to be rich in silver, and to have been worked a half a century ago 
by some Germans as a silver mine. Numerous small veins of galena are 
reported to occur in the vicinity, and Mr. Calvin Prescott, of Hillsdale, 
informed me that he had seen galena in many places in the limestone 
ledges on the farm of Capt. Burr, on the east side of the road near the 
same place, near the Hudson and Albany rail-road, and a few rods 
south of the silver mine, so called, on the land of Calvin Pease. Black 
and yellow copper ores (sulphuret of copper and pyritous copper) occur 
in small quantities, associated with the galena. 
Near the localities mentioned above, is a reputed silver mine. It has 
been opened within a year or two. It is leased by Elder Ford and Mr. 
Holmes. Elder Ford showed me 300 or 400 lbs. of the ore. It is dis- 
seminated through quartz, and unless it be very lich in silver, would not 
pay the expense of picking, stamping, washing and smelting. I exa- 
mined the mine, and found small quartz veins traversing the limestone 
in an east and west direction. A single particle only of the galena was 
observed, which would not weigh more than 40 grains. There are no 
indications, to my mind, that would justify a mining enterprize. Su- 
perstition, as in many other instances which have come under my ob- 
servation, has been busy. This mine is stated to have been discovered 
in a dream, by an apparition pointing out this as the locality of a rich 
silver and lead mine, to a Mr. Holmes, the father of one of the lessees, 
about 30 or 40 years ago. He sold the farm many years since, went 
to the west, and after an absence of more than 20 years returned, took 
a lease of the lot, and opened the place where he had dreamed a rich 
lead and silver mine had been indicated to him. He gave one half his 
interest in the mine to his son, and sold the other half. It has been 
worked within a year, and the lessees wall probably continue to work it. 
Mr. Calvin Prescott, of Hillsdale, who has long been a close observer 
of the minerals of that region, imparted to me the following localities 
where small quantities of galena have been found. Several of them 
were examined by Prof, Cassels and Mr. Merrick, in company with 
