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feet in length, seven feet high and six feet wide, had been cut from the bank f the creek to the perpendicular shaft; a basin of seven feet deep is sunk below the surface of the entrance shaft; this basin is constantly supplied with water, into which the shot falls from the top of the tower, where the lead is melted and cast through the well or shaft. A small rail way is erected within the lateral drift, communicating with the well, and extending to the finishing house, which is built on the bank of the creek immediately opposite the entrance to the shaft. On this rail=way the shot is carried in small boxes or cans from the basin or well, by a horse power, into the finishing house; the same power by various machinery is employed in drying the shot in a cylinder over an oven; from the overn the shot is carried into the polishing barrel, and thence the various sizes are passed over the [various] several inclined floors for separation, and taken to the separating sizes; after which the several sizes are weighed, bagged, and put into kegs; a steamboat