Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 206
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Transcription
at Hui you much lime is known from a melted marble abandoned there. Near this village we've seen great piles of cinders where silver had formerly been mined. These workings are said to contain much copper but no use is being made of them now.