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vivam ' Auri venam> qvacuncg pateat iter , e radice pcr apertas mollescg 

 fcatebras ramos ad fuperna fupercilia montis cmittere, neqj unqvam_* 

 qviefcere, donee cceli auram affeqvantur. Formare ibi > vifo Aeris ful* 

 gore , baftras & grumos auri pro fru&u , animadverterunt. Pantef 

 in GalUa cum Anno M. DC. II, mLugdunenfi territorio prope fagumdi 

 S. Martin la Vlaine, in vinea cujusdam ruftici ditifllmae Auri minerae in- 

 ventare{fent,exerutis particulis unaaurihujusvirginei, tam artificiofsc 

 palmitem exhibuit aureum gemmas protrudentem, ut magnum hoc Naturas 

 miraculum Regi Henrico Magno cum itupore oblatum fuetit y uti 

 hocrecenfetP^r. MatthaminHiflor. Gall.T. ILL<V. narr.fp.m. Edit, 

 Galhc. 2og. Vites qvasdam intra Danubium in Moem & Ntcri rraEtu 

 claviculas qvasdam & pierumqj candicantia folia ex p uro Auro germi- 

 nantia habcre & flmul coalefcere,recenfet Alex* ab Alexandro L. IV. Gen* 

 Dier. c. p. Gaudentim ME RULAin Cofmograph. I. X. c. 27. Anton. MU 

 ZAUD. Cent. II. memorab. /. & J. Bapt. PORTA Phjtogn. L. II. c. 6. 

 Simile paucos ante annos invineis GermanU circa Drefdam ad Atbim 

 fa&um eft, ubi vinitor ex vinea? cujusdam fertiliflimaf terra prominen- 

 tem vidcnsfuniculum, illum lentead aliqvot ulnarum longitudinem ex* 

 traxit,donec difrumpereturfuniculus, qvod extraxerat, Aurum obrj* 

 •^um fuifle Lapis Lydius comprobavit, qvod Ampelograph* qvoq, Curiofh 

 L. uc.s*pk42. reccnfui. In Hungaria tamen , mineralibus ferariffim£ 

 terra> praeprimis accidit, confpexit Anno M.DCLI. D. Matth^m 

 HELD Princip. Sigifmundi Rago^i Archiater in Arce Batak^ prope 

 \Toccavium-, in Botris acinvscompa&isauri atomis fptendentes Principl 

 oblatos, qvodexT^^^/ww^redux oretenus poftmodum retulit, mi- 

 hi hk Vratislavi*. Viaitjoh. Joachim. Becherm in Hungaria vitem fu* 

 vjraaurivenam prognatam , cujus truncm non foltimtotus aureis velut-s 

 I fllis obvolutus fuit, fed & in qvibusdam granis feu acinis auri obrj^tgra* 

 nula invenerunt> uti notat in Metallurg. part. I. c* t.pag. 2.D \ Martin* 

 Henric.de Franckenflein Phjficm Eperienjis, Amicus dum viveret con- 

 iundiilimus, Litteris 16 } $. ex Hungaria ad ffie perfcnptis> nonfolum 

 Wtabatur femet poffidere> non folum aiiqvos acinos circa Tcccaviufru 

 nventos, Aurigranis impraegnatos , fed & feqventes binas enumetaviS 

 f&)?m<# fide dignas > qvse in Latinum fermonem translatanta fonantv 

 lln/Z^^rMNobilis qvidam nomine VValpatakj Vinitorem habuit, qvJ 

 ium aliqvando a labore laffus> in vinea federet ? forte confpicjt ex terr^ 



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