Vcculidritles lately found m Iron-Jlone. 



very hard and compact He thinks he knows the place 

 where it was broken off, and that more of the fame kind will 

 hereafter be found : but this, notwithstanding the flrifteft 

 fearch, has not yet been the cafe. 



I am happy therefore that I have been able to give this 

 occafional notice of a phenomenon fo remarkable in the mi- 

 neral kingdom : if I receive any further information on the 

 fubjeel, 1 mall not fail to communicate it. 



The fecond remarkable phacnoincnon in the mineral king- 

 dom occurred to me in the county of Wachierfbach, on the 

 ri<cr Kinzisr. not far from the town of Gelnhaufen, where I 

 refided fome time laft fummer, for the benefit of my health, 

 with the reigning count. An iron-work, Htuated at the di- 

 iiance of two miles from the count's palace, belongs to Mr, 

 von Lilienftern, of Franckfort, and is one of the completer! 

 and moil beautiful I have feen. It confifts of an elegant 

 manfion and tavern, a large edifice for the fubalterns, a eaft- 

 ino-houfe, a forge, and various large and fmall hammers, 

 which are fituated fo advantageoufly under each other that 

 they can all be driven together by the fame water. The 

 whole forms a fmall colony, and exhibits to the amateurs of 

 fuch eftablifhments a moil agreeable profpect, efpecially as 

 it is variegated by romantic walks, and agreeable fruit- and 

 kitchen-gardens. The fmelting of the iron-ftone is performed 

 in a common high furnace. The product, according to the 

 account of the founder, may be about 24,000 pounds per 

 week, which amounts to nearly 3500 pounds in 24 hours. 

 The iron obtained, as far as I can judge, is malleable, and 

 of a good quality ; but, in particular, very proper for caff 

 work, on which alone the workmen were employed during 

 two vifits which I paid to the eftablifbmenL They have a 

 verv able director, and caft not only the molt beautiful round 

 fire-ftoves, according; to the antique mode, with many appro- 

 priate ornaments, but alfo pots and other veifels, according 

 to the demand and other circum (lances. They are employed 

 in making inch articles, and catting the raw iron into the 

 iifua! prifmatic pigs, which is afterwards fubjeeted to the 

 operation of the different hammers. 



Notwitbftanding the gmit extent of the Budinger foreft, 

 and the private woods belonging to the count in the neigh- 

 bourhood, the proprietors of this iron-work have been 'obliged 

 to purchafe the ncceifary charcoal at a verv dear rate,- and to 

 bring fome of it from a great diffanee. becaufe the numerous 

 falt-works,glafs-houfes,and other fmaller manufactories in the 

 neighbourhood, naturally increafe the confumption ; and the 

 many rights of commonage in the Budinsrer foreil belonging 



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