5245. MINES, Virginia lead.—
We take
the liberty of recommending the lead mines to
you as an object of vast importance. We
great an extent. Considered as, perhaps, the
think it impossible they can be worked to too
sole means of supporting the American cause,
they are inestimable. As an article of commerce
to our Colony, too, they will be valuable;
and even the wagonage, if done either by the
Colony or individuals belonging to it, will carry
to it no trifling sum of money. [324]
—
To Governor Patrick Henry.
Ford ed., ii, 67.
(July. 1776)
