( 2101 ) 
I u A .-Valley may fo lye^ as at the feef of 5^ federal liills^ 
and then we may find § fevera! Deads^ Le. Common esrth^ 
or that loofe earth which was moved with the s/joadm 
theConcuffion, biitoot cootiguousto the Load inirsfirft 
pofitioo^ f which is alfo termed by us x\m rm of the Conn-^ 
trejfj) with as many different Shoads in rhemidftof each. 
And here the knowledge of the Caji of the Ccuntrey , or 
each hili^ iarefpefl: of its Crewt^ will be very oeceilary,, 
for the furer training of them one after the other^ as they 
lie' in order according to the fore-going rules of Effay- 
H^^^^^e/.* for the upperraofl will direfl: you ^ wirh^ v/hich 
hill to begin firft* 
12. It may be, that after vve have trained up the Hill j 
inftead of a Load we find nought but a Bof^fiy , or Squat - 
which likewife have their Shoadj whofe form is about 2 
or 3 fathom long and half as broad 5 few larger^ moft Jels: 
which communicates with no other Load^ or Vein, neither 
doth it fend forth aoy of its own 5 but is entire of it felf^ 
whole extremities terminate without running out into lit- 
tle innumerable firings^ not lying within walls^ as Loads; 
although they are in the Shelf^ (not moved by the Flood ) 
whofe farface is equal every wherewith that of theimagi-. 
Bary Shelfy ooe^aod may.go down five or fix.fathoins deep^ 
fome more, fbme iefs^ and there terminate 5 which Sqnatts ^ 
are conftantly %vroughtout with good advantage to the 
Workers when found 5 neither is the Tin of the bafer 
fort. 
15* Although the Virgula divinatma of (bme few(whore 
fuccefi I am ignorant of) hath been employed for iinding: 
the orifice ofapropofed Mioe^ and fome more- curiou-j 
ways 3 as that of Waters^ which may be thought to iflije 
from fuch Loads (which I will not deny, but may be a ve- - 
ry confiderable way in finding Cole^pits^ J fvlinera! fteams, 
Barreoneis of foylj and the pitching of Noduroal Lights 
on the fuppofed orifices of Mines 5 yet becaufe they are 
rather nicej than needful, and not fufficient for what they 
are urged by fome, uokfi it be to. caufe the over- curious , 
but unskilful . Trainer £0 defift.from,.a farther fearcb after 
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