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294 OTDER THE SEA.
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V December Lias Not Everywhere In Englan...
the acquires usual the mode ri , ht by of which working th . e the lowes lot t bidder and engag among ing 1 others the miners on it
g , on terms which interest all in the success of the operations . According to thisthe miner in remaining longer at his arduous _toils _>
is not being over , -taxed for the benefit of hard masters , but is promoting his own interest with every blow at the hard walls
around him . One evil of their rough lives is lessened with the change of descenttoo ; it has been found that those long climbings
seriously affected , the action of the heart , and the miners , not a long-lived race of workers , a ; nd hardly likely to be at any rate , were
especially in danger from that cause . They may well and wisely therefore " wait for the / ' while they grow themselves a
little richer , and add more waggon than before to the fortunes of the shareholders .
The red tanks , five in number , which we passed again , wereas we had supposedcleansing tin—the stream of water
turned , on from one side , and , washing through them all , separated the metal from the crushed earth and stone by the natural action
of its own weight . Till lately all this work was done by hand , which of course in the case of " poor _stuff" such as was washed
, here , occasioned a good deal of waste , the labour scarcely repaying itself where the ore was little among much other substance , and
much of the former therefore escaping with the latter . These " _slimes" as I think he called themthe captain said saved all
this waste , and with their water-rush managed , by one boy , did the work that , had before been given to thirty girls . But I think I
understood that the better material is still washed by hand to separate it . I may be excused , however , if I have not caught
exactly all descriptions , since the sound of Cornish talk , always leasant to mehad long become unfamiliar to my ears .
p There only , remained mysterious now the kind of outhouse ( I fear it is disrespectful to Botallack owners to call it so , but really
it is not an ostentatious building- ) oj ) posite the stamping enginehouse . Here we now entered , and found a number of boys with some
kind of stick or shovel poking about ore stuff in troughs , each set under shown a other tap of tin water ore , in stuff order in troug to free hs the undergoing mineral . the Also agency , we were of
sulphuric acid to detach the iron particles , from it . The iron is destroyedbut being unimportant in quantity ( whether in quality
, also I do not know ) has to be sacrificed to the good of its more valued neighbour .
Then we saw tubs full of dull-coloured brown earth , as it looked , treasure but of which . The the min wei e g woul ht of d a have little no handful more betokened to do with rich it now mineral but
send it away to the smelting-house to come out thence in great white glimmer-shining blocks , shaped and stamped , huge fiat cakes
of tin .
294 Otder The Sea.
294 _OTDER THE SEA .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/6/
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