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WALK IN VEGETABLE GARDEN 
THE ITALIAN WELL-CURB 
iron mines. These have been worked since 
Colonial times and you come upon them in 
the outlying property with startling unex¬ 
pectedness— some long since abandoned, 
yawning in their 
unscru table 
depths like horri¬ 
ble oubliettes , 
some i n active 
working, large 
enough to receive 
the body of Trin¬ 
ity Church in the 
excavated crater. 
It was to its 
richness in iron 
ore that Ring- 
wood owed its 
development far 
back in 1760. A 
mining expert 
from the Wal¬ 
loon country, 
Baron Peter Has- 
enclever, who had 
followed the for¬ 
tunes of George 
the Second to 
England, heard of 
the mineral wealth 
A WALK AT RINGWOOD MANOR 
of northern New Jersey and took up a large 
tract of land in behalf of a company he had 
organized, called the London Company. 
Many of the titled ladies of the Court put 
their money into 
this venture, and 
finding the re- 
t u r n s delayed, 
forced the recall of 
the unfortunate 
Baronat theendof 
ten years. He was 
tried by the Eng¬ 
lish Courts on the 
charge of obtain¬ 
ing money under 
false pretences ; 
and although ac¬ 
quitted after a te¬ 
dious delay, he 
never returned to 
his mines at Ring- 
wood. They 
passed into the 
care of his suc¬ 
cessor, one Mr. 
Robert Erskine, 
(son of the cele¬ 
brated Scotch 
preacher, Ralph 
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