Note 1 — Chapter XXXIII · THE SILVER AND (SO-CALLED) QUICKSILVER MINES OF NERTCHINSK.

Speaking, however (p. 56), of “Mercury or Quicksilver,” the author says: “Argental Mercury, or native silver amalgam, has been found at ... Kolyvan, in Siberia.” But Kolyvan is thousands of miles from Nertchinsk, and on the Obi, where there are no quicksilver-mines. Further (on page 66 of “Ure’s Dictionary”), the imports of quicksilver are given as coming from Spain, the United States, Chili, Australia, Hanse towns, Hanover, Austria, Italy, Mexico, and other parts, but nothing is said of any from Siberia.