A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri;: Including Some Observations on the Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, Soil, Climate, Population, and Productions of Missouri and Arkansaw, and Other Sections of the Western Country. : Accompanied by Three EngravingsCharles Wiley & Company, 1819 - 297 sider |
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Side 167 - It is an assemblage of beautiful meadows, verdant ridges, and rude misshapen piles of red clay thrown together in the utmost apparent confusion, yet, affording the most pleasing harmonies, and presenting in every direction an endless variety of curious and interesting objects. After winding along for a few miles on the high ridges, you suddenly descend an almost perpendicular declivity of rocks and clay, into a...
Side 205 - Washitaw river eight miles below. They lie fifty miles south of the Arkansaw river, in Clark county, territory of Arkansaw, (lately Missouri,) and six miles west of the road from Cadron to Mount Prairie on Red River. The approach to the springs lies up the valley of the creek. On the right of the valley rises the hot mountain with the springs issuing at its foot ; on the left, the cold mountain, which is little more than a confused and mighty pile of stones. The hot mountain is about...
Side 83 - ... the upper stratum of limestone and to ascertain the character of the succeeding formations. It is highly probable, reasoning from geognostic relations, that the lower formations will prove metalliferous, yielding both lead and copper, and such a discovery would form a new era in the history of these mines. The present mode of promiscuous digging on the surface would then be abandoned, and people made to see and to realize the advantages of the only system of mining which can be permanently, uniformly,...
Side 168 - Louisiana, is now in the collection of the Historical Society in the New York Institution. Its shape is irregular, inclining to oviform ; its surface deeply indented, and covered by an oxide of iron, and it is much broader at the bottom, where it has rested on the earth, than at the top, inclining somewhat in the manner of a cone. By several experiments which have been made upon different pieces of it, there appears to be .a want of uniformity in its quality, some parts being very malleable and ductile,...
Side 167 - ... cotton trees, elms and cedars. These meadows are divided by chains formed of red clay, and huge masses of gypsum, with here and there a pyramid of gravel. One might imagine himself surrounded by the ruins of some ancient city, and that the...
Side 200 - Indians and to some White River hunters for many years. The Indians have been in the habit of procuring lead for bullets at that place by smelting the ore in a kind of furnace made by digging a pit in the ground and casing it with some flat stones placed so as to resemble the roof of a house inverted, such is the richness of the ore and the ease with which it melts. The ore...
Side 181 - A tall thick, and rank growth of wild grass covers the whole country, in which the oaks are standing interspersed, like fruit trees in some well-cultivated orchard, and giving to the scenery the most novel, pleasing, and picturesque appearance.
Side 3 - In his passage he touched at the Island of St. Domingo and purchased five hundred slaves for working the mines ; and, entering the Mississippi, pursued his voyage up that river to New Orleans, which he reached some time in 1720, and soon afterward proceeded on his way to Fort Chartres. From this point he dispatched parties of miners to "prospect" for the precious metals, and they crossed the river to the west lwnk and explored what is now Ste.