bigscoop
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One of the biggest problems with the Beale narration is the amount of gold and silver in the tale, because it’s something that just wouldn’t have been possible. Beg to differ?
Take the Atocha or the 1715 Fleet, per just one example, the amount of gold in each of these maritime disasters the product of "huge" industries and the labors of hundreds, if not thousands, and a great deal of this from some of the richest deposits in the known world at the time, some of it having already been mined prior to its confiscation by the Spanish. And yet in the Beale tale we are to accept that 30 men with limited means and limited time and with no efficient refining process were able to achieve the gathering and the refining of thousands of pounds of gold and silver in each of their very short and very limited mining seasons? So very-very-very clearly this portion of the Beale narration is an absolute, and very-very obvious, fabrication.
So where does this leave us? It leaves us with the only remaining possibility, that the gold and silver, “if there ever was any”, had to of come from some other source and not a mine as detailed in the Beale narration. “Period!” So what might those other possible sources have been in 1818-1885? So in this thread let us accumulate that list of "reasonable possibilities"…..(And I include the entire period up to the narration’s publication date because we have no way of knowing when this alleged wealth may have actually been accumulated.) And NO Eldo, please spare us all of the fantastical.....
Take the Atocha or the 1715 Fleet, per just one example, the amount of gold in each of these maritime disasters the product of "huge" industries and the labors of hundreds, if not thousands, and a great deal of this from some of the richest deposits in the known world at the time, some of it having already been mined prior to its confiscation by the Spanish. And yet in the Beale tale we are to accept that 30 men with limited means and limited time and with no efficient refining process were able to achieve the gathering and the refining of thousands of pounds of gold and silver in each of their very short and very limited mining seasons? So very-very-very clearly this portion of the Beale narration is an absolute, and very-very obvious, fabrication.
So where does this leave us? It leaves us with the only remaining possibility, that the gold and silver, “if there ever was any”, had to of come from some other source and not a mine as detailed in the Beale narration. “Period!” So what might those other possible sources have been in 1818-1885? So in this thread let us accumulate that list of "reasonable possibilities"…..(And I include the entire period up to the narration’s publication date because we have no way of knowing when this alleged wealth may have actually been accumulated.) And NO Eldo, please spare us all of the fantastical.....
