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Ibfe our Loads s for otherwife it were almoftimpoffible to 
lofethem, did they run in a parallel line tothefurface of 
the E^xth, 
1 1. The Fv'ivers. 
4. Albeit I have divided this Mafier load into fo many 
p-ii^tSj and the fame is to be imagined concerning the con- 
corTiitants i yet I would not you fhould fuppofe, that fuch 
real divifions happen all at once in one Load» but may hap- 
pen in diftant ones. 
5. The Inftruments commonly ufed in Mines, that ferve 
for ripping x\\^loads^ and breaking the Deads, and land- 
ing both the Ore and Deads,are 5 ( i\ ) A Beele or Cornijh 
Tnhber (i.e. double points) of 8/* or lO /.weight, (har- 
ped at both ends, well fteeled and holed in the middle. It 
may laft in a hard Countrey \ year, but new pointed every 
fortnight at leaft^ (2 J A <y/e4ge, flat- headed from 10/. 
to 20/. weight, will laft about 7 years, new ordered once 
a quarter, (3.) Cadds^ox Wedges of a /♦weighty fquare, 
well fteeled at the point 5 will laft a week 3 2 or 3 dayes,. 
then fliarpcned. (4.) Ladder (5O Wheel barrorvsy to 
carry the Deads and Ore out of the Drifts or Adits to the 
Sliambles. 
6. The proportion of Men is, 2 Shovclmen, 5 Beele* 
men, which are as many, as one Drift can contain^without 
being aahinderance to each other. The Beele-men rip the 
Deads and Ore 5 the Shovel-men carry it off, and land it 
by cafting it up with (hovels from one fhamble to ano# 
ther, unlefs it be where we have a Winder with two 
Keehles (great buckets made like a barrel with iron hoops, 
placed juft over the then termed Wind Hateh^) which as 
one comes up, the other go^ down , 
7. A great of this skill confifteth in the exaft know? 
ledge and obfervation of the Loads dipping 5 for which - 
we have this general rule: That moft of our Tin^loads, 
which run from Weft toEaft, conftantly dip towards the 
North, (bmetimes they under-lye ( that is^ (lope down to- 
wards the North ) 3 foot in 8 perpendicular 5 which muft 
be obferved for this reafon ^ that we mayexa(&ly know, 
^here. 
