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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt:...deal of sand and debris. In some points of these veins, the iron ore is replaced by various ores of lead, the most abundant being the phosphate, which are explored at Erlenbach and Katzenthal. These veins traverse the sandstone of the Vosges, a formation whose geological position is not altogether well known, but which contains iron mines analogous to the preceding at Langentkal, at the foot of Mount Tonnerre, and in the Palatinate. Many analogies seem to approximate to the sandstone of the Vosges, the sandstone of the environs of Saint Avoid (Moselle), which include the mine of brown hematite of Creutzwald, and the lead mine of Bleyberg, analogous to the lead mine of Bleyberg, near Aix-laChapelle. At Cruttnich and Tholey, to the north of the Sarrebruck, mines of manganese are worked, famous for the good quality of their products. The deposit exploited at Cruttnich, seems to be inclosed in the sandstone of the Vosges, and to constitute a vein in it, analogous to the iron veins mentioned above. There has been recently opened a manganese mine at Lavellinc near La Crcix-auxmines, in a district of gneiss with porphyry. In the Vosges and the Blach Forest there are several deposits of anthracite (stonecoal), of which two are actually worked, the one at Zunswir near Offenbourg, in the territory of Baden, and the other at Uvoltz, near Cernay, in the department of the Upper Rhine. There are also several deposits of the true coal formation on the flanks of the Vosges. MINES OF THE HART0. The name Hartz is given generally to the country of Forests, which extends a great many miles round the Brochen, a mountain situated about 55 miles W.S.W. of Magdeburg, and which rises above all the mountains of North Germany, being at its summit 1226 yards above the level of the sea...