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the Mountain, at the time the eruption happened : in confe- 
guence of which, they went to work in fearch of the fuppofed 
treafure ; and after fruitlefs fearches, formed larger connections, 
entered into covenant with the proprietors of the land, and with 
one another, to make fearch for all kinds of mine and mineral. 
They have dug down about feventy or eighty feet ; and in fome 
places, where the rocks permit, twenty feet wide; but they are 
now impeded by the rocks, and the water that comes from the 
Mountain above the hole. ‘The external parts of the hole is 
entirely rock, and in many places much burnt and foftened. 
There are {mall holes in various places of the rock where they 
dig, like the arch of an oven, and the rock feems to be dif, 
folved by heat; the cinders and melted drofs adhere to it, anc 
hang down in drops like {mall icicles, fomething SB 
ing in colour, the cinders ofa furnace, or black glaís, and it 
is fo faftened to the rock, that it appr as if it was originally. 
part of the fame. 
"They dig out of the hole, near the furface, various ftrata of 
earth, or mineral ; and in digging a drain to let out the water, 
de find a great plenty of the fame kind of earth.; and as it lies. 
h the ground, the different complections are very curious to 
MET there is a very ‘finc Toft yellow-oker, which, burnt, 
makes a good Spanifh brown ; ‘there is another ftrata, refem- 
bling levigated antimony, the pe very foft ; another of a 
fáint yellow, fine, foft, and very greáfy, which quality i is not loft 
by lying on the farface of tlie earth, for a long time, expofed to. 
the fun and air; there is another that refembles a peach blofiom _ 
in colour, but the texture more like the oker : and thefe va- , 
rious mineral, or earth, are not intermixed. At the mouth of. 
the M there was blown out melted drofs, which ftuck to 
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