Chapter XII: “Bring the light nearer,” said John Burley—“nearer still.” (5)

Footnote 5:

Reports of British Association for 1849—Appendix, p. 63.

Footnote 6:

JACOB, i. chap. x. _passim_.

Footnote 7:

Murchison—Reports of British Association, 1849, (Appendix, pp. 61,
62.)

Footnote 8:

“In the Temeswar Bannat the washings were performed exclusively by the
gypsies, who display great skill in finding it. They dig chiefly on
the _banks_ of the river Nera, where more gold is found than in the
bottom of the stream.”—JACOB, i. p. 245.

Footnote 9:

_A Ride over the Rocky Mountains._ By the Hon. HENRY J. COKE, p. 359.

Footnote 10:

_Sights in the Gold Region, and Scenes by the Way._ By THEODORE J.
JOHNSON. Second Edition. New York, 1850.

Footnote 11:

Quoted by JACOB, vol. i. pp. 56, 57.

Footnote 12:

_The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints_, (a cotemporary history,) p. 227.
London, 1851.

Footnote 13:

JACOB, i. p. 246, note.

Footnote 14:

JACOB, ii. pp. 263, 264, note.

Footnote 15:

A pood is 36 lb. Russian, of which 100 are about 90 English
avoirdupois; and a solotnik, 1–96th of a Russian pound, or about 65½
troy grains.

Footnote 16:

ROSE, _Reise nach dem Ural_, &c., chaps. ii. iv. viii. Berlin, 1842.

Footnote 17:

Compare WYLD, p. 26, with JACOB, ii. pp. 62, 167.

Footnote 18:

JACOB, i. p. 56. In copying the above extract from Diodorus, we
inserted the word _quartz_ in brackets after his word “marble,” under
the impression that the old Egyptian mines were, like the similar ones
in California, really situated in veins of quartz, and not of marble.
We have since communicated with a gentleman who, about twenty years
ago, accompanied M. Linant, a French engineer in the service of
Mehemet Ali, to examine these mines, and he informs us that the gold
was really found in _quartz veins_ traversing a black slaty rock. The
locality, as may be seen in Sharpe’s _Chronology and Geography of
Ancient Egypt_, plate 10, is in the Eastern Desert, about the middle
of the great bend of the Nile, and about the 21st parallel. The
samples of rock brought down by M. Linant were considered rich enough
to justify the despatch of a body of miners, who were subsequently
attacked by the natives, and forced to abandon the place. A strong
government would overcome this difficulty; and modern modes of
crushing and extraction might possibly render the mines more
productive than ever. A very interesting account of these mines is to
be found in a work by Quatremere de Quincy—“_Notice des Pays voisins
de l’Egypte_.”

Footnote 19:

_Ibid._ p. 247.

Footnote 20:

FOURNET, _Etudes sur les Depôts Metallifers_, p. 167.

Footnote 21:

The reader will be interested by satisfying himself of this fact, so
peculiar to Victoria, and so favourable to it as a place of
settlement. He will find it pictured before his eye in the
newly-published small and cheap, but beautifully executed, _School
Physical Atlas_ of Mr Keith Johnston.

Footnote 22:

JACOB, i. p. 55.

Footnote 23:

_Ibid._ ii. p. 267.

Footnote 24:

FOURNET, p. 169.

Footnote 25:

Cortes invaded Mexico in 1519; Pizarro landed in Peru in 1527; and
Potosi was discovered in 1545.

Footnote 26:

ROSE, _Reise nach dem Ural_, i. 555–7.

Footnote 27:

To some of our readers this remark may call to mind the beautiful
process of Mr Lee Pattinson, of Newcastle, for refining lead, by which
so much more silver is now extracted from all our lead ores, and
brought to market.

Footnote 28:

_Commercial Dictionary_, edit. 1847, p. 1056.

Footnote 29:

Quoted in JOHNSTON’S _Notes on North America_, vol. ii. pp. 216, 217.

Footnote 30:

_The Life and Letters of Barthold George Niebuhr, with Essays on his
Character and Influence._ By the Chevalier BUNSEN and Professors
BRANDIS and LOEBALL. In 2 vols.

Footnote 31:

Every one remembers that Goethe’s last words are said to have been,
“More Light;” and perhaps what has occurred in the text may be
supposed a plagiarism from those words. But, in fact, nothing is more
common than the craving and demand for light a little before death.
Let any consult his own sad experience in the last moments of those
whose gradual close he has watched and tended. What more frequent than
a prayer to open the shutters and let in the sun? What complaint more
repeated, and more touching, than “that it is growing dark?” I once
knew a sufferer—who did not then seem in immediate danger—suddenly
order the sick room to be lit up as if for a gala. When this was told
to the physician, he said gravely, “No worse sign.”

Footnote 32:

_Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone._ By ANGUS B. REACH.
London: 1852.

Footnote 33:

Mr Spackman, in his _Analysis of the Occupations of the People_,
states the whole number of persons employed in manufactures of every
kind at 1,440,908; the total

annual value of their production in 1841, at
£187,184,292
Whereof, for the Home Trade, £128,600,000
For the Foreign Trade, 58,584,292
———————————— 187,184,292

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