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fallen in and.buryM the Indians that were working in theirr^ 

 with their Tools and Props to keep up the Earth. In pro- 

 cefsof time they have again dug the fame Mines, and have 

 found Threads of Silver in the Wood, the Skulls and Bones,, 

 running through them as they do in the Vein it felf. 



This matter of Faft is reported by fo many feveral Per- 

 fons, that it cannot be looked upon as an Invention. Mon- 

 fieur Chambon^ in his Treatife of Metals, tells us fome- 

 thing very like this, which may neverthelefs be fufpe&ed 



Strang* Rela- to be magnify 'd. He tells us, That in a Mine of Gold' 



thn and Silver, in Hungary it is likely, they aflbred him, that 



they had found three human Figures, of the fame Matter 

 of which theVeins of the Mine are compofed j and that tho" 

 the faid Figures had been bruis'd and broken by the Ham- 

 mers and Wedges, what was taken up had been fo well 

 put together, that, tlrere was no occafion to queftion their 

 having been Men. That thofe Figures had their peculiar 

 Mineral Veins, that the inward Head, and all the Bones 

 were of pure Gold, and that was the Reafon why thofe Fi- 

 gures had been deftroy'd. 



PaliJJi, in his Treatife of Metals, tells us of fuch another 



'Jmtbm Phenomenon.. He affirms he faw a Stone of Lapis Cala- 

 minaris, in which there was a Fijh of that fame Subftance ; 

 he adds, that in the Country of Mansfeld, abundance of Fijhes 

 are- found converted into Metal*. 



stttfrgrmsi * c ls an undoubted' Matter of Fa&, that nruch Silver 

 " has been found in the Mines of Lipes, which had been 

 wrought long before. I know they anfwer to this, that 

 formerly they were fo rich, that the fmaller Quantities* 

 were not regarded ,- but I much queftion whether Men 

 would voluntariy lofe what they had, when it was to coft: 

 but very little Labour.: If to thefe Fadis we add*, what 

 has been faid of the Wafliing-Places of Adacol, and of the 

 Mountain of S-Jofeph, where the Copper is form'd, there 

 will be no longer Occafion to doubt, that Silver and other 

 Metals are daily form'd in certain Places. Experience 

 dailyfccws.it in relation to Quick-filver, if it be. true that; 



