[20]. Fournet, Etudes sur les Depôts Metallifers, p. 167.
[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.
[22]. Jacob, i. p. 55.
[23]. Ibid. ii. p. 267.
[24]. Fournet, p. 169.
[25]. Cortes invaded Mexico in 1519; Pizarro landed in Peru in 1527; and Potosi was discovered in 1545.
[26]. Rose, Reise nach dem Ural, i. 555–7.
[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.
[28]. Commercial Dictionary, edit. 1847, p. 1056.
[29]. Quoted in Johnston’s Notes on North America, vol. ii. pp. 216, 217.