Tfie Datura! and Moratt 



theJJintes , how hard <wdftroflgfoe f uer 5 for the hunger of 

 gold i* yet more farfc andftrong . This Plinic faies , who 

 although he fpeakes as a hiftoriographerofthat age, 

 yet doth he feeme to prophecie of this time. Neither 

 is it IcflTe which Phocion ofAgatkarchides reports of the 

 great travell they indure , whom they called Chryfios, 

 in drawing out of golde : for as the faid Author faieth, 

 gold and filver are as painefull to digge and drawc 

 forth, as they are pleafing to poflefle. 



How they refine the Mcttatt of Silver CHAP. 9. 



np He Veines as I have (aid , where they finde filvtf, 

 A runncs betwixt two rockes. which they call the 

 ^ Chafe 5 whereof the one is commonly as hard as flint, 



and the other (oft and eaficto breakc. This mettall is 

 not alwaies equaL and of the fame bountie, for you 

 {hall finae in one and the fame vcine , onefbrt of met 

 tall very rich /which they adlCu?//*, otTMaita, from 

 which they draw much filver and another is poore, 

 from whence they draw little. The moft rich mettall 

 of this mountaine.isof the colour o^mbcr . and the 

 fiext is that which Inclines to black?? There is other 

 fomcwhat red, and other of the colour of aflies : final 

 ly of divers and fundric coloures, which feeme to fuch 

 as know them not, to be ftones of no value . But the 

 miners do prefcntlyknow his qualitieand'perfedion, 

 by certaine fignes and fmall veines they finde in them, 

 carry all this mettall they drawe out of thefe 

 ftiines,vpon Indiffi flicepe > which fenT them as Affes 

 to carryit to the millcs b the richeft mettall is refined by 

 melting in thofe fmall furnaces , which they call Guay* 

 m>for that is moft leadie ; by reafon whereof, it is mort 



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