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barley, potatoes, abundant pasture and the Coris indians and also by the Goall kinds of cattle. The population of Coris is composed be a great success and a sure investof one hundred inhabitauts more orless- ment. they are. very submissive, which is a dis- At the present moment that the prLima. tinctive of the indian race and of order- blic attention is called to the Grace Aralv and moral habits. The principal pur- nivar Contract, which if faithfully carto fill their Granaries, and increase their little labour and not very large capicattle; they are never in want; famine But the principal feature of this peaceful region is the profusion of rich veins of gold and especially of silver found all around. It seems that, as if here, Nature had laid open all her treasures It is not necessary there to search for minerals: the rockymountain on which the village is built. and all the side of the mineral Stratum, commonly called there, Soroche or Plomiso fusible at a low heat. There is a common saying in Coris "I am going to gather some brushwood to melt a little lead next week. And when will very soon gather sufficient fuel to their debts this fact revealing, that the Coris people pay little or no attention to It is well to take note that the Coris indian is ignorant of the means employel to separate the silver from the lead. gun of which he is very fond, or selling The Coris indian or the halfbreeds (two for very rich aud abundant ores which they treat by the amalgamatiou system. and eveu then are satisfied with very The importance of these galena mines is well worth calling the attention of cavarnish eartheuware, and for great many oth r uses. These mines, (worked on a large scagions and also be the means of opening the for est walths on the opposite side of ding to your judgementof any particular T'hese are not the ouly natural riches think proper.