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fs, by Its ponderoufnefs, which eafily informs us whether it 
be metal or no. The fecond is, its poroGty , for moft Tin- 
ftcnes are porous, not unlike great bones almoft throughly 
calcined 5 yet Tin fometimes lie^ in the firmeft ftones. The 
third is, by waterj which we terra Vaumfjg, and that is per* 
formed by pulverifing the ftone, or clay 3 or what eHe y 
be fufpeded to contain any mineral body, and placing it 
on a Vauning (hovel 5 the gravel remains in the hinder 
part, and the metal at the point of the (hovel, whereby the 
kind, nature and quantity of the Ore is gue(red at ^ and in- 
deed moft. commonly without any great deception, efpe- 
cially idht Vaumr have any judgement at all. 
3. But if no Shoadm2Ly be found or difcovered in fuch 
fretSj then we leave that place 5 neither truft weto any 
Metalline ftones found in the common River , for the rea- 
fon afore- mentioned , and becaufe they rather breed di- 
ftradtion, than guide us to the finding out the Load, efpe- 
cially if they are fmooth, without protuberances^ and afpe- 
ritiesj fuch as are u(ual to ftones newly broken : for then 
they plainly ftew they have been brought a great way, 
and in their tumblings thither are worn fo fmooth, as mod 
waterrftones are. Then we go to the fides of thofe Hills 
moft fufpefted to have any Loads in them where there 
may be a conveniency of bringing a little ftream of water 
(the more the betterj) and cut a Leat, Gurt, or Trench, a- 
bout 2 foot over, and as deep as the Shelf^ in which we 
turn the water to run 2 or? dayes, by which time the 
water, by wafliing away the filth from the ftones, and the 
loofer parts of the earth 5 will eafily difcover , what Shoad 
is there* If we find any, we have a certainty of a Load, or 
at leaft a Squart in the upper parts of the Hil J. Sqnatts are 
certain diftinft places in the earth, not runniog in veins, 
differing from Bpnnys ( which word will occur by and 
by, ) in this only that SquMs. are flat, Bmnys are 
r£)undi(h. 
4» Sometimes ^hoad may be found upon the open fujr- 
f^ce of thei ground,^ as being thruft Up by Moles in thjeir 
hillQclS;. or turned up by the plow;, orby fgme other acd? 
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