Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 114 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 114: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running prose from "A Month's Tour," page 114. The text describes a visit to Paris mountain's copper mines, noting the barren rocky surface but "immense treasures" within. The author compares the mining works to a cathedral supported by massive pillars with numerous cloisters and recesses. The passage then recounts traveling to Porthamlwch, a naturally formed harbor in rock where tides rise considerably and allow sloops to transport ore from the mountain. The text breaks off mid-sentence at the bottom ("The ore is prepared and brought").
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14 A MONTH’ TOUR. antique reftaurata. The furface of itis not remarkable for fertility, abounding witht rocks, and being extremely bare of tim- ber. ;, but.within its bowels are. contained. immenfe treafures.. ‘The copper-mines at Parts mountain are exceedingly valuable,. as well as curious... The works bear fome refemblance to a-large cathedral fupport- ed, by. maffy pillars, having, numberlefs. cloyfters. and_receffes.. | After abundantly gratifying our eurio-+ fity in. this wonderful place, we direéted: our courfe to Porthamlwch, a harbour completely formed by nature, in a rock; where the tide rifes to a confiderable height, | and is acceffible to floops, whicli convey from hence the’ riches of the mountain. The ore is prepared’ and abies brought comicbooks.com