. Transactions . I THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON IN CANADA. 509 abundance. I apprehend that it will be next to impossible to exhaustthis mine, as there is an extent of country of four leagues in lengthfrom Capde la Madelaine to Champlain, which is covered with iron-ore; all the streams indicate its existence. I had the curiosity totaste the water, and I found it all strongly impregnated with rustand iron, but the miners whom I sent there render the affair certain ;they are now working there and if you have any intention of estab-lishing forges and a foundry, you may be certain that the materia
. Transactions . I THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON IN CANADA. 509 abundance. I apprehend that it will be next to impossible to exhaustthis mine, as there is an extent of country of four leagues in lengthfrom Capde la Madelaine to Champlain, which is covered with iron-ore; all the streams indicate its existence. I had the curiosity totaste the water, and I found it all strongly impregnated with rustand iron, but the miners whom I sent there render the affair certain ;they are now working there and if you have any intention of estab-lishing forges and a foundry, you may be certain that the materialwill not be wanting. There are six piles of ore, now lying at Capde la Madelaine which, according to the annexed report of the miner,would last for two castings a day for four months. The importantquestion is the placing of the forges. According to my opinion Ishould prefer building them on Ruisseau Pepin, which is in Cham-plain, rather than at the Cape, where the Jesuit fathers have a millalready in operation. By thus
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