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It is principally used as a manure and in the manufacture of nitric acid: owing to its deliquescent property it will not serve for gunpowder. Formerly there were two exceedingly rich silver-mines in this neighbourhood, but their produce is now very small. Our arrival in the offing caused some little apprehension.
"A 'great many' silver-mines!" cried Lady Theobald. "Are you mad, Belinda Bassett? I am ashamed of you. At your time of life too!" Miss Belinda almost shed tears. "She said 'some silver-mines, I am sure," she faltered; "for I remember how astonished and bewildered I was.
The Conquest cost the lives of several hundred thousand of the labouring class; and numbers more were taken away from the cultivation of the land to work as slaves for the conquerors in building houses and churches, and in the silver-mines. When the inhabitants were taken away, the ground went out of cultivation, and much of it has relapsed into desert.
Telegraph lines were being established; coal, petroleum, and gold- and silver-mines were being exploited, or were in a fair way to be. The good management of the regency under General Almonte's frugal administration had accumulated a balance of 15,000,000 francs in the treasury a small surplus which must have been encouraging to the Emperor upon his arrival.
"It is chiefly noticeable for a sang-froid which might be regarded as rather enviable. She was good enough to tell me all about her papa and the silver-mines, and I really found the conversation entertaining." "It is scarcely customary for English young women to confide in their masculine travelling companions to such an extent," remarked my lady grimly.
With respect to the silver-mines, it is stated, on competent authority, that the northern States of Mexico are very rich in silver; but there is scarcely any population, and that consisting mostly of Red Indians who will not work. When this district becomes a territory of the United States as seems almost certain, this silver will, no doubt, be worked.
The stories of the diamonds, the gold-diggers, and the silver-mines, had been added to, and embellished, in the most ornate and startling manner. It was well known that only Lady Theobald's fine appreciation of Miss Belinda Bassett's feelings had induced her to extend her hospitalities to that lady's niece.
New Zealand has also something more than productive lands; the colony has plenty of coal fields, gold-mines, silver-mines, iron ore, and copper ore. Even if all the rest of the world were closed against this far-away colony, the New Zealanders could worry along quite well, for they easily rank among the most prosperous and well-governed people in the world.
The fact is, that she is such a very singular girl, and has told me so many wonderful things, in the strangest, cool way, that I am quite uncertain of myself. Murderers, and gold-diggers, and silver-mines, and camps full of men without women, making presents of gold girdles and dog-collars, and ear-rings that drag your ears down. It is enough to upset any one."
"It's an honest brawl among friends, and I could settle the account with them at the next market-day, when my shoulder's mended." "Better if you would settle my account for your last pair of brogues, Alasdair M'Iver," said a black-avised juryman. "What's your trade?" asked the Marquis of the witness. "I'm at the Coillebhraid silver-mines," said he.
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