The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-28
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remainder have not been tested sufficiently to
know whether they will prove productive or not.
On several claims much labor and capital have been
expended; dams, fumes and suces have been built,
ana as the first washings from the surface of the
earth did not look very remunerative, the parties
have become discouraged and stopped. The bus-
ness required time, patience and labor to make it
prove satisfactory, with some amount Of capital to
start with
Particles of gold are found over quite a terri
tory about Plymouth; good claims existing, as re-
ported, three miles from Plymouth Corners on
another stream; some gold is certainly to be had
there and claims sell for S5 per running rod. Gold
ana lead are both found in quartz rock in the town
OF Brldgewatcr, nine miles north.
iiymouth Is quite an interesting locality for the
m,netaogist. Iron, stone and ore, soapstone,
to have been discovered in the gold miningq-
Many will doubtless be attracted thitber this season
to try their luck, but unless the new claims
opOn richer than they have yet promised lagiti-
mate business yet be followed to better advan-
tage than gold-hunting. If anybody is determined
to try the latter experiment, there is in Vermont
room enough, water enough, and more or less gold
probably as rich deposites somewhere as that OF
MIR. HankersOn; and new claims may b. leased, or
old ones bou: ht or hired
ECLIPSE OF THE sun ON FRIDAY NEXT.
In the afternoon of Friday next, July 29th,
small eclipse of the sun will be visible in a large
part Of the United States, the British Provinces,
at the time of the conjunction new moon will,
however, be great, that there where the eclipse
is the largest lin latitude $50 north longitude l5T
westl, only One-half of the sun will be ohscureG.
In the city of st. Johns Newfoundland the mag
nitude of the eclipse will be nearly 5, at Charlotte
town, P. Z. l., digits, in Boston 23l and in New
Y Ork "a, but under and southwest of line drawn
from the southeast corner Of Georgia to the north
west Of Missouri, the moon will apparently pass
above the sun, and there will not be any eclipse
whatever.
| The duration of the observation also greatly va
ries; at Halifax it will be III minutes; in Boston
| 64T New York 591% Washington about SO, Chi
cago about AZ, Charleston "a, and at Savannah,
and at st. Louis, only about quarter of an hour,
and at the last three places the impression on the
sun will probably be too small to be seen without
| the aid of telescope.
| Moreover, if the times of the beginning at the
fourteen places mentioned below are reduced to
that of our first meridian (Greenwchl, it will BE-
seen that the eclipse viii not begin later in places
| more easterly. as is usual, but the reverse Thus
| in Greenwich time the beginning will take place
at New York at l0h. 22m. 30 sec; at Cambridge at
lOh. l6m. 2Tsec.; at Halifax at l0h TN. llsec.; at
CharlottetownP. f. l., at lOh. 3m. "a Sec, &c; So
that it will actually begin at New York the most
westerly Of the fourteen places 10 minutes later
| than at CharlOttetOwn, the most easteriv, and 6
minutes later at New York than at Cambridge. y
result only partially caused by the longer duration
| of the eclipse towards the northeast.
! For the four following places all the phases Of
the eclipse have been carefully computed by the
tables in the English Nautical Almanac. They are
expressed in mean time of each place. and the point
on the suns disc at which the eclipse will begin s
reckoned from the Vertex towards the left hand;
but if an invertng telescope should be used the ap
pearance will be exactly reversed: