silver , is placed on a stone by the mine foreman and flattened out by pounding with heavy square hammers . These masses , when they have been thus flattened out like plates , are placed either on the stump of a tree , and cut into pieces by pounding an iron chisel into them with a hammer , or else… … SIMILAR TO A PAIR OF SHEARS . 20
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