KLAUSTHAL, the principal mining town of the Harz district, Hanover, is situated on the top and sides of a bleak hill, at an elevation of 1860 feet, 25 miles N.E. of Göttingen. A small stream, called the Zellerbach, over which there is a bridge, divides it from the village of Zellerfeld. It contains a mint, where the precious metals of the dis-
Kloptock, a mining-school (for the free education of young miners, with a large collection of models of machinery, &c., and a cabinet of minerals, a gymnasium, &c. Pop. 9070; of Zellerfeld, 4176, chiefly employed in, or in connection with, the mines, a few also in manufactures of iron-ware, woollen cloths, yarn, &c. The neighbouring mines employ above 2000 workmen; one of them, the Georg-Willhelm, descends below the sea-level. A subterranean canal, above 2½ miles long, conveys the ore from some of the shafts, and they are all drained by a subterranean tunnel 6 miles long. The whole machinery of the mines is moved by water-power, and all the streams of the neighbourhood are carefully husbanded for this purpose.