The P^Aturatt and Morall 



, who was tkefr 



So curious &nd Acwrft* 



Who digged out of the mi 



UMans minde to vndermind, 



Hcaviemights ofgolde ore, 



Better concealdibcf ore: 



i^dndpearle crept intogr<wnd> 



Paleforfeare to be found: 



Galwg gold, wringing rings^ 



P recto ft* > Lut perilous things. 



yy jth re af on hecalleth them precious dangers, for the 

 great labour and perill wherewith they draw out thefc 

 mcttallSjWhich men fo much cftceme. P//^/>faies,that 

 in Italic there are many mines,but the Ancients would 

 not fuffer their people to worke in them,onely to pre- 

 ferve the people. They brought thefe mettalls from 

 fyainc, and made the Spaniards labour in the mines as 

 tributaries. The like doth Sftinc now with the Indies 9 

 for there remaining many mines of mettall yet in 

 Sfaiflcjhsy will not Tecke them,nor fuffer any to worke 

 in them, by reafon of the inconveniencies which hap- 

 pen daily, but they bring them from the Indies, where 

 they digge it with much labour and perill . Thisrocke 

 ofPotozi, containes as I have faid 3 foure principair 

 velnes, that is, the Rich veine, thatofc^/^^ that of 

 Tinne,and that ofMtmktt* All thefe veines are of the 

 Eaft part of the mountaine , as looking to the Sunne 

 * rifing, for on the Weft partthere is not any. The fore- 

 faid vcines runne from North to South, which is from 

 Pole to Pole. In the largeft place they have fix fopte, 

 and in the nan-owSaTpanne bredth. There arc others 

 of divers fafhions that runne out of the faid veines; like 

 as out of the great armes of trees, there commonly 



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