MINING IN THE CHAP. X. 



The silver in these mines was chiefly found 

 in lead, in a proportion varying from two to 

 twenty-two ounces of silver in a hundred pounds 

 of lead. There has always been a great diffi- 

 culty, and regular heavy expense, in keeping 

 out the water from these mines. Formerly 

 ducats were coined at Kremnitz from the gold 

 found there, which are distinguished by the 

 letters K.B., the initials of the Hungarian words 

 Kermees Banya, signifying Kremnitz Mines ; 

 but of late years the gold and silver produced 

 from Hungary have been coined in Vienna. 



Dr. Edward Brown, an English physician, 

 who visited the Hungarian mines about the 

 year 1670, and published his Travels in 1685, 

 says that the mines of Chemnitz had been 

 worked nearly nine hundred and fifty years, and 

 are the richest in gold of all in the kingdom. He 

 also speaks of a mine at Glass-Hitten, about 

 seven miles from Chemnitz, which was formerly 

 worked, "but is now lost, no man knowing 

 where the entrance was, since the time that 

 Bethlem Gabor overran that country, and the 



gold and silver that was extracted, amounting, in the three 

 following years, to 132,425 ducats of gold, and 2,851,815 

 gulden of silver, or in English money to about 340,000. In 

 1729, the produce was 557 marks of gold and 13,192 marks 

 of silver, or about 40,000. In 1730, the quantity was 756 

 marks of gold and 8846 of silver, or about 35,800 ; and in 

 1732 only 677 marks of gold and 1279 of silver, or about 

 18,806. 



