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mines de Charbon de terre > fans creufer plus d'un ou deux 

 pieds > fcribic FREZIER relat. du Voyage de la mer du Sud , aux 

 cotes de Chili p. 1 46. Ubi infuper zdditAmericanos iftos tali car- 

 bone uti nefcire & valde miracos efle , cum Europaos vidiflenc, 

 pabulum alendo igni e cerra eruere. In Chin<e quoque regio- 

 nibus Xenfi & Peking carbo fojfilts effodicur , cefte FRANCISCI 

 imD^3nbifd)enSlljt^@artenp. 1151. Carbones foffiles ubique 

 pafiim reperiuncur, pociiTimum in Terricorio Leodienfi, in Bo- 

 hemia > Saxonia , ItalU variis locis, ic. in £/?;* infula , in Sici/ia 

 uc referc KIRCHERVS mund fubterr. lom. II. lib. VIII. feB. //. 

 p. 66. b. ldem Lib.X.Secl.III. p. 189. incegrum moncem e folo 

 lithanthrace conftancem nobis defcribic incer Neofilium & Crem- 

 mtium , quibus camen nemo ucacur promineris Iiquandis, ne- 

 que fabros ferrarios profuis officinis., auc ullum alium. Cauf- 

 fam quaficos refpondifle : nimis vehemencem fufcicare calo- 

 rem > ica, uc ferrum confumac&omnem liquacionem deftruat. 

 Plures quoque in quibusdam GallU tra&ibus generancur,cum- 

 primis in Avernia (Auvergne)& in agro Segufiano (Forez ) ut 

 cft apud MISSON Foyage d* Italie Tom. II. p. zsf. In fodinis Aff- 

 vernenfibus , Burgundicis , LEMERT Ditiion. des Drogues p. m. 

 493. in moncibus Provincia Gallica (Provence) Hifloir.de PAcad. 

 Royale des Scienfes An. 171 o.p. 33, In agro Leodienfi maximus 

 eft horum provencus, ibique ab Invencore, Marefchallo PRVD- 

 HOMME le HOVILLEVX, appellancur Houitles. Immo fama 

 quoque ferc , fpeftrum quoddam , feniculum nempe alba vefte 

 inducum , ifti Marefchallo rnineram hujus Carbonis primurn 

 oftendifle. Tocus ager Leodienfis> quin vel ipfa urbs, cefte AN~ 

 SELMO BOETIO DE B00D1 , caufla lucri , quod ex hifce 

 luhanthracibus capcanc , ( non fine periculo, eam aliquando 

 fubrucum iri) quafi cuniculis fuffofla eft,eod. KIRCHEROtefie 

 loc. cit. Hiclapis, quem MARCVS POLVS y ap. MAJOLVM 

 loco dicro > vocac > Carbonum vicem Belgarum domefticis ne- 

 ceflicacibus prabet. Vehicur in urbcs , vendicur ligni modo, 

 cftque indigenis magno ufui > perinde ac reftintti carbones in 



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