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Mr. Carne’s Account of 
At the depth of 12, 25, and 50 fathoms, nothing was 
discovered in the lode but the cavities from which the ore 
had been taken away during the former period of working 
the mine. 
At 65 fathoms in depth were found, close to the flookan, a 
great number of angular fragments of shist, cemented by the 
same substance. 
At the depth of 75 fathoms the flookan (C) became 4 inches 
wide in the shaft (A), and continued of that size for 10 fathoms; 
it then became divided into 4 parts or branches (D), each di- 
verging from its former course, and in this state it continued 
through the lode (B), of which the first 3 feet were composed 
of copper pyrites ( E ), and then w r as discovered a body of peb- 
bles (F), nearly 12 feet square, extending in width to the 
extreme branches of the flookan. In this part of the lode the 
shist greatly predominates ; of course the pebbles are gene- 
rally composed of shist, cemented in some parts by the same 
substance or chlorite, in others by oxyde of tin, which is ge- 
nerally crystallized, and in some of the crevices there is a little 
copper pyrites. It is singular that a few pebbles ( perhaps not 
more than half a score ) were found of quite a different nature 
from the others ; they were composed of tin in quartz coated 
with chlorite. 
The pebbles did not continue in a body to the height of 
more than 2 fathoms ; but scattered bunches, and single peb- 
bles, were found 4 fathoms above and 6 fathoms below the 
place in which they were at first discovered. It is only neces- 
sary to add, that the lode has since been worked 15 fathoms 
deeper than where the pebbles occurred ; it there consists for 
