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black) corrodes fome metallick. matter or other q ; which fom- 

 times is Copfer, and fomtimes Gold, as Encelim witneifeth it is at 

 Lauterberg and Goldeberg in Silefta, in his Book De re Mttallica r ; 

 where he alfo further adds, that Gold is fmelted out of-Geruleum 

 itfelf. 



6r. Dr. Brown alfo tells us, in the account of his Journey 

 from Comara to the Mine-Towns in Hungary s , that at Schemnitz^ 

 where the filver Ore holds fome gold, and at the fdver Mines in 

 /Vw, there are Rocks cover'd over with a fair (Inning blue. Ru- 

 landm 1 alfo joins it with a filver Ore at Giefiubelia, and fo does 

 P/i;zy u : What then fhould hinder but it may be fo here ? fince 

 I do not doubt it to be the fleam of a mineral ; for when I was at 

 the bottom of the pit (above 50 foot deep) notwithftanding the 

 opennefs of trieplt, and coolnefs of the day, no Sun appear- 

 ing, I found it fo hot, that the drops followed one another on 

 my face , whence 1 judged the Mine-chamber not to be far 

 off. 



62. Which 1 rather guefs to be of filver than of any other 

 metal, becaufe of the Alabaflrine or /far- like fubftance found 

 mixM with it ; wKich, fays Mr. Websler, was in fome places in- 

 termixtalfo in the beft Silver -mine ever yet found in England, the 

 Ore whereof held about fixtyfix pounds per Tun w . From all 

 which it may be concluded, that 'tis probable at leaft that here 

 may have been formerly fuch a mine, ftopt up as I firft thought by 

 the Aboriginal Britans, upon the arrival and conquefts of the Ro- 

 mans ox Saxons, who not being able to recover their Country with- 

 in the memory of man, it might be loft like the Gold-mine of 

 Glafs-Hitten'm Hungary, when Bethlem Gabor over-ran that Coun- 

 try x ; or the Gold-mine of Cunobtline in Effh, difcover'd again 

 temp. Hen. 4. as appears by the Kings Letters of Mandamus, bear- 

 ing date 1 1 May, An. 2. Rot. 34. directed to Walter Eitz^Walter 

 concerning it y ; and fince that loft again. 



3. Till at length they found the Vms, and then 'twas plain 

 and evident that it muft have been formerly fome Roman Work, 

 and probably ftill remains fome old Roman Mine, in all likelyhood 

 ftopt up, when Gallio of Ravenna fent hither with a Legion (the 

 laft that ever was in Britan) to repel the Pitts and Scots, was fi- 



< Mufaum Metallicum^lit.ycap.%. ' Kneel, de re Met allica. cap. 22.. s Account of- his Travels, />. 93, 

 94. 1 Mart:Rula?idi Lexicon Alcbemi* * Nat. Hift. bb. 7,\> cap. 12. * Hiftory of Metals, cap.i\. 

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