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in our time in Peru. If there were ever rich mines in the 

 worlde 3 and famous for this effed, they have bin theft 

 ofSpaitte, which they ofCart/jagc did inioy, andfince, 

 the Romans, the which as I have (aide, are not oncly fa 

 mous and efteemed in prophane bookes, butalfo, in. 

 the holy Scriptures, Hee thatmaketh moft particular 

 mention of theft mines,- attheleaft that I have feene,is 

 P%/A,who writeth thus in hisjiaturall Hiftorie : They 

 jin'defifoer almojt in all provinces^ Ivtthat 0/Spaine is tm / 



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which gr owes and ingenders in a barren fotle t vppon 

 mount tines and rocks . It is a certains and infallible thing, 

 that in places where they have ence difioverea any ofthefe 

 wines, there are others not f Am off y which is blw&ife found 

 in aft other mettalls , and for this the Greekesjn my opinion, 

 called them mettalls.lt is grange that the pits or holes ofthefe 

 mines cfS paine, the which they beganne to dig$e in Hanni- 

 bals//^^ 5 are at this day, and hold the names of their difco- 

 uerers. Amongtt theft mines y that which Bebcllo difcovt- 

 redy which holdes his name vnto this day, WM veryfamoM* 

 *nd they fay ityeeldedfogreatriehesto Hanniball-j that evt- 

 rieday they gathered three hundred founds weight of fiher r 

 And'unto ihti.day they havewviies continued labour ingifr 

 thi* minefi as it k r^mdi^i / f . hsindredpa&s deep into the 

 mount aine^ Out of which pits, notwithstanding the deapth y 

 the Ga(comes that labour in them dram out the water , that 

 they may worke with more eafe , whileti their candelks and 



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tights loft, ana that m fucb woitndaunce^ itjeemes to be a 

 river . Hitherto are the woordesofPfo^thewhichl 

 would fet downe word by word, the better to content 

 fuch as know what mines be,fteing that what is tried at 

 this day, was then in vfe . And truely the riches of this 

 mine of Hannibal vpontheP/m#&*#hilles, was great 

 and famous, which the Jta#w#,rpofleflcd, having con 



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