ANF The three and thirtieth Booke ee Cx: 
tall. Our countrymen in Latincall this Borax Santerna : with it they ufeto foder that goldefpeci- G 
ally which ftandeth much upon filver, and is therfore called Argentofum. Thiskind of goldmay 
be known thus snamely, if it will looke bright and cleare upomthe putting of Santernauntoits 
whereas contrariwife, if it hold much upon brafle (and{uch gold is named AErefum) it will have 
noluftre at all, but looke dimand duskifh upon the laying of Borax upon it, and befides will 
har/ly be fodred. But to foder fuch gold, there is a proper glew or foder made, with an addition 
of gold and the feventh part offilver to the reft abovenamed, and all thefame ftampedand uni- _ 
ted cogither. Andfince I am entred into the feat of fodring, it were verie meet and convenient — 
to. annex untothis prefent difcourfe, all things elfe concerning it, that wee may under One view 
beholdthe admirable works of Nature in thiskind. The foderof gold then, is Borax, which I . 
have fhewed alreadie, Iron is fodred wich the fuffe potters cley Argilla. Brafle ore or Chalamine H 
called Cadmia, ferveth to unite andknit peeces of braffe cogitherin mafle. Alume is good to 
hold plates of braffe one to another. Rofin doth foder lead, and befides is the proper cement of 
*Sometake marble: butblackelead will joyne well, by the means of the* white:andone peeceof tin with - 
eee Tie- another, with the helpe of oile. In like manner,tin will hold fure with afoder of brafle file-dufts . 
=. and filver with tin. Both brafle or copper, and alfoiton ore, melt beft with afiremade of Pine- 
wood ; as alfo with the Papyrreed in gypt: but contrariwife,goldfooneftmelteth withafireof =~ 
chaffe and hulls. Quickelime will catch anheat and burne, if water be caltupon it, and{o doth 
* Which fome the * Thracian flone: bur thefame,oile doth quench, Fire is moft of all extinguifhed and put 
takefor pit- out with vinegre, with birdlime, and the white of anegg. No kindof rightearth will burne light ‘ 
Dhol or flame. Finally, charcole which hath been once on fireythen quenched and afterwards feta J 
fuch ascom= burning againe, is of more force and giveth a greater heat,than that which commeth new from 
meth fro New" the hearth, jis “ty 
cattle by iea: 
orratheta Cuap, VI, 
Byer? ica eS Of Silver, Quicke-filver naturall, Stibiuw or Alabaftrum, The drofve 
or refufe of filver, and litharge of filver. 
‘T followeth by good order towrite inthe next place, of filver mines, from whence procee- — 
deth the fecond rage that hath fet men a madding : where firft and formoft this is to benoted, 
thacthere is but one means to find filver, and that is in pits funke of purpofe for it: neither is 
there any (hewat all of filverto give light thereof,and toput usin hope of finding: no fparks K 
thining, like as there be in gold mines which dire us to it. The earth that engendreth the veine 
of filver, isin one place reddifh, in another ofa dead afh colour. Bur this a generall rule, thacit 
is not poffible ro mele and trie out filver ore, but either with lead, or the veine and ore of lead, 
*or,Méeyb- ‘This minerall ox mettall they call* Galena, found forthe moft part neare tothe veins and mines 
sere of filver. Now by the meansof fire, when thefe are melted togither,part of the filver ore fettleth — 
downeward and turneth to be lead, the pure filver floteth aloft, like as oile upon water. In all our 
provinces, yea and parts of the world to {peake of, there be mines of filver to be found : howbeit 
the fairelt be in Spaine, and yeeld the fineft and moft beautifull filver: and the fame alfo likeas 
gold, isengendred in a barraine foile otherwife and fruitleffe, and even within mountains: looke 
alfo where one veine is difcovered, there is another alwaies found not far off:whichisarule ob- L 
ferved not in mines of filver onely, bucalfo in all others of what mettall foever; and hereupon 
* quafi tine, itfeemeth that the Greeks doe call them *Metalla. And verely, ftraunge it isand woonderfull; 7 
one atter ano- that the mines of filver in Spaine which were fo long agoe begun by 4anibal!, {hould continue 
ao ftillas they doe, andretaine the names of thofe Carthaginians who firftfound, difcovered, and 
brought them to light: of which, one named then Bebelo, & fo called at this day,yeelded unto 
Annibail daily 300 pound weight ; which mine even at that time had gone under the ground 
and hollowed the mountaine a good mile and a halfe:and all thatway the Aquitans at this day 
{tanding in water, ladechefame up, labouring night and daie by the candle or lampe-light, eve- 
rie mann histurne, and during the burning of a certaine meafure of oile,in fuch wile as they. @ 
divercthe water from thence, and make a good big river thereof, to pafle andrun another way. M 
A veine of filver which lieth burebb within the ground, and is there difcovered, the miners call 
Crudana,as it were a raw veine, In oldtime thofe that digged for filver, if they met once with ai- 
~ Jume,were woont to give over their worke and fecke no farther: butof late daies it happened, 
_thaeunder alume there was founda veine of white brafle or laton, which fedmens hopes ee 
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