374 On the Manufacture of Tin-plate. 
_ well understood the whole nature of iron, 
was made choice of to accompany me; and 
being fitted with an engenious interpreter, 
that well understood the language, and that, 
had dealt much in that commodity, we 
marched first for Hamburg, then to Lips- 
wick ; and from thence to Draisden, the duke 
of Sazomes Court, where we had notice of 
the place where the plates were made ; which 
was in a large tract of mountainous land, 
running from a place called Seger-Hution, 
unto a town called Ame, being in length 
about twenty miles; the tin-works being 
there fixed upon a great river running clear 
along the valley, and also upon some little 
rivulets that run out of the mountains of 
Bohemia and Saxony; and coming to the 
works, we were very civilly treated, and, 
contrary to our expectation, we had much 
liberty to view, and see the works go—with 
the way and manner of their working and ex- - 
tending the plates, as also the perfect view of 
such materials as they used in clearing the 
plates, to make them fit to take tin, with 
the way they use in tinning them over, 
when cleared from their rust and blackness. 
And having (as we judged) sufliciently ob- 
tained the whole art of making and tinning 
the plates, we then came for England, where 
