tin, and lead mine*. 281 
H!' Otli^® preparing other parU for explo- 
the brazen ore toward the black abyss 
Q the g^P®'^'ied buckets hang ready to draw it upward. 
I^Oi th violent exercise, combined with 
obliged to work almost naked. Their 
! ^ by .^'^P^tions, and primitive appearance, scantily 
tremblinff rays of torches, form a curious and 
'he ri ° ®.'^ene. 
being at least twelve hundred 
. 'e a ° ®'^ene. 
5 ’ ° 
''f ®°ur IS required to reach the bottom, 
r lies in ’ ' 
™ fo™ of an inverted cone, mve 
' On employed daily : but females are not ad- 
account of the ' " " ' 
The 
Five 
hii, 
deleterious quality of the 
ae Viraj anciently a state prison, in which crimi- 
%''^'’es J . r ^ — - 
prisoners of war toiled out their wretched 
'eticljg^^ar the bottom 
r, ..tagj is a rocky saloon furnished 
■({jJ'i of-! It is called the hall of the senate, on 
Kin * ^‘’"''ng been the resting place of several 
, 'hi!*'® the came, attended by the senators, to 

— uj tilt, IV 
til refreshments. It was 
l.^k iminortal Gustavus Vasa, disguised 
jHetit for his bread, in the com'se of a long 
^'fUas ^ ^'3ving been robbed by the peasant who 
yei 
mtity ^ copper mine was wrought 
^'aih , ^ViCKLow, Ireland. From this mine 
A,i% 
5 <> . 
y'ttg ‘'®aiu of M ' liiia umic 
4 ‘ch ? to a ^ olue-coloured water, of so deleterious a 
'?sh'^ fish in the river Arklow, into 
''el ; One of the workmen, having left .an 
t, 1iiN''''th stream, found it some days after en- 
instil!';- the proprietors of 
a set ot experiments, from which he 
blue water contained an acid Jioldiug 
to • ”Pper. 
‘“so ^'® bh 
.'he “opper'^ ’ “ stronger affinity for the 
ti '■'Oil Pfecinir.’ consequence of this affinity 
[,‘t\Va! Mien of the copper, and tlie solution of 
iij/ftjf .j.p^ces of that metal were thrown into the 
induced the miners to dig several 
Xhe water, and to pht bars of iron 
result was, that they obtained an abun- 
