Mining Academies of Saxony and Hungary. 317 



Third Year. 



t Suterranean Surveying (Ma/rkscheidekumt). 

 „ J Machinery and Drawing. 

 l8t halt. <' j)Q^y^iQ Book-keeping. 



I Botanical Abstract (on timber, &c.). 



C Art of Mining (Berghauhunde) . 

 2d half. \ Dressing of Ores {Aufbereitung). 



I Architecture, or General Building. 



The Foresters are exercised in valuing standing tim- 

 ber, &c. 



Fourth Year. 



Practical exer- 

 cises. 



Surveying, common and subterranean, 4 months. 



Mining 1 



Dressing and washing of Ores . 1 



{V<Twendung) [ gmelting-furnaces 2 „ 



During the third year, the young men are required on one 

 day in every week to go through a portion of some mine, to 

 examine minutely every particular, and to hand in a written 

 report upon it to their professor. A few of them even take 

 a piece of work on bargain, which assists to pay their ex- 

 penses, whilst it gives them a practical acquaintance with 

 sinking and driving. 



The half-yearly examinations are conducted (notwith- 

 standing that which some travellers may have stated to the 

 contrary) with great strictness, and quite openly ; and ac- 

 cording to their result, the students are divided into those 

 who gain preference (F'orzug), first class and second class ; 

 those who have the misfortune of being placed in thejatter 

 (ein zwder Kriegen) being obliged to undergo a second trial. 

 The Oberstkammergraf, or supreme count of all the works in 

 the district of Lower Hungary, also directs the academy, 

 and in conjunction with the professors assists on these occa- 

 sions. The questions are written on small slips of paper, 

 and two or three of them are taken up at hazard by each in 

 turn as he is called upon in alphabetical order, and are an- 

 swered vivd voce. The most successful candidates receive 

 as a reward a species of exhibition, sufficient to defray a great 

 portion of their expenses, whilst those who have been more 

 than twice returned in the second class, must relinquish all 

 claim to government employ. 



