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Rh of the workmen, or some other cause, no great matter has as yet been made of them.”

These three repositories of lead lie in a grey-wacke formation, with the exception before mentioned, when speaking of a small grained granite found in the sinking of a shaft at Foxdale.

From the direction of the metallic veins, they seem to intersect at a greater or lesser angle the greywacke-strata. The direction of the metallic vein at Laxey is West South West, and East North East; at Brada head, the shafts have been opened in a line that keeps nearly the same direction.

The inclination of the metallic vein with respect to the horizon, both at Laxey and Foxdale, is two yards in six.

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