MINING IN THE CHAP. x. 



were employed in them, and the produce was so 

 great as to assist Edward the Third to carry on 

 the war with France 1 ." 



One Bulmar, an I^riglishman, worked the gold 

 mines in Scotland in the reign of Queen Eliza- 

 beth. In that time three hundred men were 

 employed near Elvansfoot, at a place still called 

 the Gold-Scour, who, in the course of a few 

 summers, are said to have collected equal to the 

 value of 100,000 2 : they were resumed a few 

 years ago under the superintendence of the 

 manager of the lead mines at Warilochhead ; 

 but the price of labour was too high to induce 

 the continuance of the workings 3 . 



Fabricius, professor of mineralogy in the uni- 

 versity of Kiel in Holstein, visited England 

 about the year 1740, chiefly with a view to ex- 

 amine the state of the mines. He says in his 

 work on the subject 4 , that in the tenth year of 

 Queen Elizabeth, miners were sent from Ger- 

 many to the company of mines royal established 

 to work the mines of silver in Cardiganshire, 

 and those in the county of Tipperary in Ireland. 

 As far as relates to gold and silver, his informa- 



1 Pennant's Wales, vol. i. p. 90, 91. 



2 William's History of the Mineral Kingdom, vol. ii. 

 p. 365. Edinburgh, 1810. 



3 Ibid. vol. ii. p. 364. 



4 Reise von J. C. Fabricius durch verschiedene provinzen 

 in England und Schotland. 



