out of the waggons in which they are tranfported. Saltpans made of the fame, and no longer wanted for that purpofe.
cannot be broken up, in order to be melted again, unlefs previoufly drilled in many parts.
In the weftern country, we are told of iron mines between the Mufkingum and Ohio; of ethers on Kentucky, between the Cumberland and Barren rivers, between Cumberland and Taniffee, on Reedy creek, near the Long ifland, and on Chefnut creek, a branch of the Great Kanhaway, near where it crofles the Caro- lina line. What are called the iron banks, on the Miffifipi, are believed, by a good judge, to have no iron in them. In gene- ral, from what is hitherto known of that country, it feems to want iron.
Confiderable quantities of black lead are taken occafionally for ufe from Win- terham, in the county of Ameha. I am not able, hov/ever, to give a particular ftate of the mine. There is no work eftablifhed at it; thofe who want, going and procuring it for themfelves.