The geologic relations seen at the surface continue underground, but in addition 5 to 10 feet of gouge, dipping 68°E, is found to separate the serpentine from the ore zone. The gouge is not sufficiently resistant to erosion to crop out. […] A bull quartz vein occurs in places along the contact of the gouge and the ore zone. It does not constitute ore.

Then there's Montenegro—splendid little state—you could lose a dozen Montenegroes up and down these great ranges.

That being the case, you miss the opportunity to filthify environments where only the pure of heart can go.

I was young enough not to part with hope too easily; — the vague idea I had that my turn would come, — that the ever-circling wheel of Fortune would perchance lift me up some day as it now crushed me down,[…]