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during nine months, eight hundred and eighty-seven thousand 
two hundred and ninety-eight pounds of lead; the amount of 
per centage which the United States receive from these works 
during that time, was a hundred and four thousand one hun¬ 
dred and thirteen pounds. It is supposed, that in the next 
year the mine-works will produce from three to four million 
pounds of lead, which must be three hundred and fifty thou¬ 
sand pounds for the share of the United States. It is but a few 
years since these mines were worked. 
On the XOth of April, we paid yet some other visits, before our 
departure. First, to Major Biddle of the sixth regiment of in¬ 
fantry. He is a brother to Commodore Biddle, and also of the 
President of the United States Bank, in Philadelphia. His wife, 
educated in France, does not appear particularly delighted with 
these out posts of civilization. We then went to see Mrs. Clark, 
who, through the secretary of her husband, Mr. Alexander, ex¬ 
hibited to us the museum collected by the governor on his tra¬ 
vels, and since considerably augmented. Mr. Alexander showed 
us articles of Indian clothing of different kinds, and various ma¬ 
terials,—except the leather, the larger part of these materials 
were American, or rather entirely European in their origin. A 
single garment alone, was made by the Cherokees of cotton, 
which was pulled, spun, wove on a loom, made by an Indian, 
and even dyed blue by them. Besides, several weapons of dif¬ 
ferent tribes, wooden tomahawks, or battle-axes, in one of them 
was a sharp piece of iron to strike into the skulls of their prison¬ 
ers; another made of elks-horn, bows of elks-horn and of wood, 
spears, quivers with arrows, a spear head of an Indian of the 
Columbia river, hewed out of flint, a water-proof basket of the 
same people, in which cooking can be performed, several kinds 
of tobacco pipes, especially the calumet, or great pipe of peace. 
The heads of this pipe are cut out of a sort of argillaceous earth, 
or serpentine; in time of war the spot where this stone is dug 
out, is regarded as neutral, and hostile parties, who meet each 
other at that place, cannot engage in any thing inimical against 
each other. The pipe which the commissioners of the United 
States use at treaties with the Indians, has a heavy silver head, 
and a peculiarly handsome ornamented wooden stem. Farther: 
Mr. Alexander showed us the medals which the Indian chiefs 
have received at different periods from the Spanish, English and 
American governments, and the portraits of various chiefs, who 
have been at St. Louis to conclude treaties with the governor, 
who is also Indian agent. Among the remarkable things in natural 
history, we noticed an alligator, eight feet long; a pelican; the 
horns of a wild goat, shot by the governor in his tour among 
