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WICKLOW. 2:37
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“'01‘1d" can surpass it irll) ;1‘aSi1:lleurt:ii(Il.ldlii:ce ii bells]. may .n0thiI.1g in “ the wide
at the pretty and picturesque bl-idrre 5:111 .Y- 1 ' ie visitor will pause a while
the Avonmore and the Avonbeo" cf ; mi crlw “Ch mH'the blenilcd waters of
of which is a small island Coy sod or-nlimg lere a placid lake (in the centre
for a first and last en]1.)rac7c bcefle $tl;1tl11n(1e1‘W00(l)!ilS if the rivgfrs lingered
under a "cw name the Aiv0Ca010 110$ ceased their separate existence, and
calm and ‘lliiet “mhetinn” th , rusle. together to the Se.a' Upon their
bleak and bai-Yen. the Omar .9 moiuntains look down-one. in the distance,
of the fir with “:6 “Gm: t. tllmrfie Iiately abcnve them, mixing the dark hues
ilingingits Subducq mil 011111: 01 :1 ie ashf ‘the brightest of grecnvgand
union of 3. thousand t - g ' C S m 0w’ as if in Sympatlly’ upon the tranquil
The ionii 1c 1 mm’ hem me‘? ‘W1 “m"131ed1n peace.”
himstecp’ are c1z:11cdsw:;l;)lngf>:0rtli: trvcst bank of .the Iivoca; On both sides the
above their thick folirwe es - iees, the.opposite being especially rich. From
mansion, beneath whi‘c]t>l 2t1PeCp, occasionally, the tu’i"rets. of some stately
that the bcsepoints of V, 1% eye detects . clearings slrilfiilly formed, so
winding course the mm 10“; may be obttiiiied; and, as the river takes a
the scenery are’ Yer fl-.ns 0 angily Cxtllfllnlng-ille grace and splendour of
mines of Cronbane ,:ndccI131icli1it. 1 early midway in the valley, are the Copper-
to the 1.;ght,at 0 s . .Vmu1-tngli-.-,tlic'f01'mer to the left, and the latter
PP0S1t0 Sldcs of the l‘1VC1‘.:"" A prettily situated inn, “the
a visit to H - . '
works (l3;is),"i)l'l'!":l,l‘t::l:pin m the summer 09 the year 1807.” It is singular that in the latest edition of his
nrers Avon nnd AvocQ‘,, t'i""8'.pci'pctu.:ited the error of stating that the writers which “meet” here, are “the
Mine of the A;-om Mte‘ I 1.1’: riiers. being, as we have shown, the Avonmore and the Aronbeg, which trike the
no Our space in H]. r t ion Junction.
s“i'.l‘-‘ct of very ‘iim J3 part, will not permit us to enter at any length into the subject of Irish mines-a
Wicklow-the pr(;ducE’iP0T‘f;.IIce. There is, lioirever, one branch of it, at present exclusively connected with
fremunernting price iiao ;"II’l"1F 0re.> It is only very recently that this ore has been raised and sold at
'" File value of smp‘;m. .18 mi‘-'-'99YT!ent between England rind the king of Naples led to 9. considerable rise
We earnestly hope the 3 In consequence of which the Irish miners were enabled to enter the market; and
Cronbane, in the mohtlmre been permitted to retain possession of it. We spent the greater part of a day at
“'C8l(s‘2’3O0 tons of I of June; and learned that during the previous month-a miner's month of live
tons; in IS“ 7 I9. Ore had been raised in this mine alone: in 1840, the quantity rziised was 6.457
chiefiy‘ at me lzmimua “msinand probably an equal qurnitity at the mine of Ballyinurtiigli. This is shipped,
on the quay of wicklg‘ 0-f “ icklow, for the smelting-houses of Swansea. The company get for it 253. a ten
Per ton; but as [be dry V-hezminers receive 4s. 6d. a ton for raising it; and the curtuge to Wichlow is 53.
Pay," as the ujohn M""’.c" IS eleven Irish miles, and one horse can convey but half a ton, this is “poor
the Subject of sul i occupies a man and horse the whole day. Still it is better than no em
f01hesulpl,urthSiur, we borrow it passage from the Mining Journal--“ With more immediate reference
'‘ may be obs?”-d 9, and as an evidence of the etfect produced on our foreign rehitioiis. as regards supply.
9 ' “mt the ““'-'1“-‘ll import from Sicily for the five years previous to the monopoly averaged
it. will be seen (c;ilcu<
ployinent. .On
33,000 t
> one. If . .
M "'9" 19359 the Wiclchw district alone. contributing sulphur ores,