what by fuch fallible curiofities may feem not to be, but 
yet by the before.mentioned,and daily experimented rules 
may eafily be difcovered 3 I (hall willingly omit to infift on 
any of them. Now having by this way once found our 
Load, we prefently confult, 
7he Art and manner ^Digging »/> iht Ore. 
I . The difficulty of this is not confiderable to that of 
Training, When we have found our Load^ the laft Eflay* 
hatch loofes or rather exchanges its name for that of a 
Tin-Jljaft, ox tin-Hatch^ which we fink down about a fa- 
thom^ and then leave a little long fquare place, termed a 
shamble^ and fo continue finking from caft to caft, ( e. 
as high as a man can conveniently throw up the Ore 
- with a (hovel, ) till we find either the Load to grow 
fmal], or degenerate into fome fort of weed, which are di- 
VQxk'^ 2LsMHndickj or Maxy (corrupted from A/^rrA^i/z/e) 
of 3 forts 5 white^ yellow, and green : Daze, whitCj black, 
and yellow : Iremould^ black, and rufl:y : CauU red ; Gli- 
fier^ bloud-redj and black. {_ See thefi hard names explained 
below. 3»I] 
2. Then we begin to drive either Wejl ox Eaji^ as the 
goodnefs of the Load, or conveniency of the Hill invite 3 
which we term a Drift, g foot over, and 7 foot high ^ fo as 
a man may ftand uprightjand work • but in cafe the Load 
be not broad enough ofitfelf, as fome are fcarce * foot, 
then we ufually break down the Deadt^ firft on the North- 
fide of the Load (for the greater conveniency of the right 
Arm in working, ) and then we begin to rip the Load it- 
feif» {_ By Deads here are meant , that part of the Shelf 
which contains no metal, but enclofeththe Load as a wall 
between 2 rocks, and not as thatj which was mentioned in 
the Concuffion, zs in Traimr^gr] 
3. That this myfterious underground-way of working, 
mny the eafier and fooner be apprehended, be pleafed to 
to caft an eye on the annexed iT/^e^s^e, mTab. IL as here.by 
tne ^///A^^^/^explicatedp which may give fome informatipa 
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