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... BLACK LEAD MINES OF SHATTER FELL-About seventy years ago, a person who possessed a part of the mountain contiguous to the mines determined to obtain a share of this rich mineral. Here, with great labour, he sunk a shaft, which he carried dia- gonally till he entered the mines, and with secret joy he conti- nued his depredations for some time undiscovered. At length his fraud was detected, and ...