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to within a few hundred feet and to lie in ranges which extend at right angles with the direction of the fissures. In the neighbourhood of Mineral Point many of these fissures are opened and mined and the "diggings" are seen to extend with little irregularity in a north and south belt, that part to the west producing lead ore; half a mile to the east the fissures containing copper ore and still further east a mile or more, hematite iron ore abound in them.

"The deepest shafts that have been sunk in these fissures are about ninety feet; and at Mineral Point they may be worked to that depth without the water being troublesome. But as these deep shafts are sunk on the highest ground the bottom of them, hardly reaches the sandstone.

"The copper ore is similarly situated to the lead ores, either in wide fissures orin thin veins running through the rock. As many as four of the little veins, not exceeding [illegible] inches in thickness have been found running about east and west on different parts of the mining ground. The ore