Ĩhue Dialogue of Iron 
f the Iron doeth fall downe ints the loweſt parte, and ſo it is 
* made a great cake, the which beeing deuided into peeces, 
they carry them tothe forge, where are certain great ham⸗ 
mers oꝛ ſledges of {ron which the water dꝛiueth, and they 
beate them, and there they are foꝛged, and doe make theſe 
planches that pou (ee there leaning. Trueth it is, that there 
are mines Were ſome Iron is moze ſtrong then other ſome 
5 and like wiſe harder and ſtronger to labour. The Iron 
“Almaine, of Almainie is ſoſter and gentler to wozke: That of Flaun- 
8 ders is harde and naught: and therefore it is that many 
| Baskey. thinges are foone broken that are made ofit. In Italy pou 
haue all fortes, that of Biskey is the beſt, by reafon it is 
good to woꝛke, and it is more mightic and ſtronge then all 
ether, and lo the goodneſkz it hath, it is carried to all 
partes. 
70h; Doctour. Doe they being tele from Biskey as they 
Fah. doe from Italie? Octuno, hep doe bꝛing a certains kinde 
of Iron ſo harde and ſkrong, chat being wꝛought, it ſerueth 
fo2 Stele, chiefly with a temperature that is giuen to it, 
that dott make it verie rong although that it be wꝛeugzt 
with great labour. There is great difference bet wenne this 
andthe Stele which they bing from Italy, and cheefely 
from Milan, foꝛ this is erie pleafant to tusozke and forte, 
and is farre better, andthe creftes men that dode twozke it 
toꝛ this cauſs are deſirous of it, and do ve it moze then and 
other. Doctour. Some will ſap, that the Stale is a mins 
alone ofit felfe diſtant from the Jron. Ortuno. It it not {95 
foꝛ all are mines of qron, but that ſome is moze ſtrongtden 
other ſome, z the ſtronger and harder it is, foz the ſtrength 
whardneſſe thereof we call it Stele, andtgere are coun⸗ 
= tries wyieh haue no sther Iron but this which is harde and 
Mondragon r 8 all the countrp of Mondragon, where —— 
Dixie, all that is taken out of them, the diſ⸗ 
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