Remains of 4 shafts.

I find that the place now being foisted on the public as the Welsh Potosi, is a little mine hitherto known as Nant-y-Cagl (‘nant’, a brook and ‘cagl’ dirt) the word cagl suggesting, probably, the new name ‘eagle’. To this there would be no objection, for a new mine may be entitled to a new name; and that of a bird of prey is as suitable as any, if it were quite certain that such alteration were not adapted for the purpose of deceit … No man, even in the most visionary foit of mining mania could find in this concern anything suggestive of a Potosi; but I will at present confine myself to one or two observations and let the facts speak for themselves. Instead of ‘20 ton of ore weekly’ which ‘no doubt can be quadrupled’, there is on the bank not as much stuff as will fill three wheelbarrows. On the top of this little pile is a stone or ore placed conspicuously, like the bait on the rat-trap. The copper ore is next to nothing, and I could only find one bit, about half as big as a hazel nut … No ore in the county contains ‘20lb of silver to the ton’… Eaglebrook yields only 8oz. One would have expected more silver than this in a Potosi that had furnished armies, and had kings for creditors.