silver-mines

Formerly there were two exceedingly rich silver-mines in this neighbourhood, but their produce is now very small.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Before the discovery of the famous silver-mines of

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Before the discovery of the famous silver-mines of

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Formerly there were two exceedingly rich silver-mines in this neighbourhood, but their produce is now very small.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

There are mountains of iron in Mexico, but no coal, and silver-mines so rich that silver, smelted with expensive wood fuel, is the staple product of the country.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

Further, you must establish a fortified camp at Decelea, a position which commands the whole territory of Attica; for by so doing you will reduce Athens to a state of siege, and compel the whole male population to serve on garrison duty; you will deprive the Athenians of their revenues from the silver-mines at Laurium, and you will put new heart into the cities subject to Athens, and encourage them to withhold their tribute.

Stories from Thucydides

He has gone through two fortunes in black cattle, fought some fighting here and there, and now he manages the silver-mines so adroitly that

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Camden tells us that the silver-mines 'were first discovered in Edward the First's days, when three hundred and fifty men were brought from the Peak in Derbyshire, to work here.'

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

The Athenians set up no Albert Memorials, but they tortured slave-girls in their law-courts and sent their prisoners to work in the horrible galleries of the Laureion silver-mines.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

And as for silver-mines, there is no doubt but they might be found there, as well as in New Mexico, on which this province borders.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz