270 MINING IN THE CHAP. x. 



The mine of Zalamea, to the south of the 

 River Guadiana in Andalusia, appears to have 

 been worked in the middle ages. It contained 

 silver without any mixture of lead, though near 

 it is another mine yielding only lead. The miners 

 seem to have mistaken the direction of the vein, 

 and thereby to have lost it. The remains of a 

 crucible, and of a reverbatory furnace, have been 

 found in it; but it is inundated, which has been 

 caused by neglect, as, according to our author, it 

 is situated on an eminence, and might be easily 

 drained l . 



Near to Cazalla, in the mountain Fuente de la 

 Reina, is the mine of Constantina. In former 

 times, probably by the Moors, it was worked 

 with skill, as is demonstrated by the construc- 

 tion of the shafts and galleries. The vein runs 

 from north to south, and crosses a bed of schist. 

 It was slightly worked when visited by Bowles, 

 owing to the want of funds; though there was 

 abundance of wood near it, and a rivulet run- 

 ning at the foot of the mountain, by which it 

 might be easily drained 2 . 



The chief mines, however, which the Moors 

 worked in Spain, were those of Linares in the 

 province, or, as the Spaniards call it, the king- 

 dom of Jaen. "The hills which surround the 



1 Bowles, p. -59. See Dillon's Travels in Spain, p. 288. 



2 Idem, page 65. 



