The northern traveller, and northern tour, with the routes to the Springs, Niagara, & Quebec, and the coal mines of Pennsylvania, also, tour of New England . farms. Round Hill is a beautiful eminence just west ofthe town. The Lead Mine. In Southampton, at the dis-tanc3 of 8 miles, is a lead mine, which will be re-garded with interest by the curious and considerable part of the road to it is good, andthe place is wild and rough. The vein declines \0 or lo degrees from a per-pendicular, is 6 or 8 feet in diameter, and traversesgranite and other primitive rocks. It has beenobserved a
The northern traveller, and northern tour, with the routes to the Springs, Niagara, & Quebec, and the coal mines of Pennsylvania, also, tour of New England . farms. Round Hill is a beautiful eminence just west ofthe town. The Lead Mine. In Southampton, at the dis-tanc3 of 8 miles, is a lead mine, which will be re-garded with interest by the curious and considerable part of the road to it is good, andthe place is wild and rough. The vein declines \0 or lo degrees from a per-pendicular, is 6 or 8 feet in diameter, and traversesgranite and other primitive rocks. It has beenobserved at intervals from Montgomery to Hat-field, a distance of 20 miles. In Southampton ithas been explored many rods in length, to the depthof 40 or 60 feet; and the ore, found in massesfrom a quarter of an inch to a foot in the depth above mentioned, the water becameabundant and a horizontal drift, or adit, has beendug. The rocks reckoning from the mouth of thedrift inwards, are geest, the red and gray slates ofthe coal formation, wiih thin beds of coal, and mi-ca slate, and granite altern;iting. The mouth of this drift is 4 or 5 feet wide, and.
Size: 1475px × 1693px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthordwighttheodore17961866, bookcentury1800, bookyear1834
