CHAPTER XXVI.

COPPER.

Its valuable Qualities—English Copper Mines—Their

comparatively recent Importance—Dreary Aspect of the

Cornwall Copper Country—Botallack—Submarine Copper

Mines—A Blind Miner—Swansea—Smelting Process—The Mines

of Fahlun—their Ancient Records—Alten Fjord—Drontheim—

The Mines of Röraas—The Mines of Mansfeldt—Lake

Superior—Mysterious Discoveries—Burra Burra—Remarkable

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