 The Indians who were the occasion of my undertaking this journey, represented this mine to be so rich and valuable, that if a factory were built at the river, a ship might be ballasted with the ore, instead of stone ; and that with the same ease and dispatch...  The Transactions of the Canadian Mining Institute - Page 536by Canadian Mining Institute - 1912Full view - About this book
 | America - 1893 - 890 pages
...gravel, which has been rent many ways by an earthquake. Through these ruins there runs a small river. The Indians who were the occasion of my undertaking...built at the river a ship might be ballasted with the ore instead of stone. . . . By their account the hills were entirely composed of that metal, all in... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1893 - 432 pages
...gravel, which has been rent many ways by an earthquake. Through these ruins there runs a small river. The Indians who were the occasion of my undertaking...represented this mine to be so rich and valuable that if a iactory were built at the river a ship might be ballasted with the ore instead of stone. . . . By their... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1893 - 916 pages
...gravel, which has been rent many ways by an earthquake. Through these ruins there runs a small river. The Indians who were the occasion of my undertaking this journey represented this mine to be so rich aud valuable that if a factory were built at the river a ship might be ballasted with the ore instead... | |
 | Lawrence Johnstone Burpee - Canada, Northern - 1908 - 840 pages
...itself. They were "nothing but a jumble of rocks and gravel." The Indians had represented the mines to be so rich and valuable that, if a factory were built at the mouth of the river, a ship might be ballasted with the ore instead of stone. By their accounts Hearne... | |
 | Lawrence Johnstone Burpee - Canada, Northern - 1908 - 840 pages
...itself. They were "nothing but a jumble of rocks and gravel." The Indians had represented the mines to be so rich and valuable that, if a factory were built at the mouth of the river, a ship might be ballasted with the ore instead of stone. By their accounts Hearne... | |
 | Canada - 1911 - 524 pages
...bounded by perpendicular mural precipices The Indians who were the occasion of my undertaking 1771. this journey, represented this mine to be so rich...oar, instead of stone ; and that with the same ease of greenstone. It is in these valleys, amongst the loose soil, that the Indians search for copper.... | |
 | Samuel Hearne, Joseph Burr Tyrrell - Hudson Bay - 1911 - 518 pages
...occasion of my undertaking 1771. this journey, represented this mine to be so rich and valuable, y' that if a factory were built at the river, a ship...oar, instead of stone ; and that with the same ease of greenstone. It is in these valleys, amongst the loose soil, that the Indians search for copper.... | |
 | Canada - 1911 - 536 pages
...occasion of my undertaking 1771. this journey, represented this mine to be so rich and valuable, y' that if a factory were built at the river, a ship...oar, instead of stone ; and that with the same ease of greenstone. It is in these valleys, amongst the loose soil, that the Indians search for copper.... | |
 | Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - Science - 1913 - 504 pages
...Tyrrell. Pp. 194 et seq. "This mine, if it deserves that appellation, is no more than an entire jumble of rocks and gravel, which has been rent many ways by...built at the river, a ship might be ballasted with the ore, instead of stone; and that with the same ease and dispatch as is done with stones at Churchill... | |
 | 1913 - 158 pages
...twenty-nine or thirty miles. This mine, if it deserve that appellation, is no more than an entire jumble of rocks and gravel, which has been rent many ways by...built at the river, a ship might be ballasted with the ore, instead of stone ; and that with the same ease and dispatch as is done with stones at Churchill... | |
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