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lowing lines reprefent and ufe. Ifaid^ip^mjlplaceii becaufe 
they dip in feme 5 as may becolleiled from the annexed 
. Scheme & what (liali be faid-aooo in the manner of Diggiog* 
Ihirdly^ That in this Coocuffioo of waters the furface of 
theEarth, together with the uppermoft of thofe Mineral 
veins, were then loofedj and torn off, and by the defcesd- 
iog of the waters into the valleys^ both the earth, or Grewt^ 
and thofe mineral ftones^ or fragments^ fo tore off from 
their Loads (which are conftantly termed shoad) were to- 
gether with and by the force of the waters carried beneath 
their proper places^ and from fome hills even to the bottoms 
of the neighbouring valleys 3 And from thence by Land- 
floods^ many miles down the River? 5 in others more or lefs 
diftantin the fides thereof/omwhat according to their de- 
clrvity^ and fomewhat according to the impettiouhiersof 
the waters i which^as I conceivej was nor in all places alike. 
; Now thefe three Generals^ oo v/hichfeecn to depend the 
" grand.reafbns of this Art^ being fuppofed and premifedj we 
thus proceed to Train : ' : 
I. Where we fufpeft any Mine to be^ we diligently 
fearch that Hill and Countrey, its fcitaationjthe earthy or 
grewt, itscolour, and nature^ and what lort offtones it 
yields 5 the reafbn hereof being only th that we may the 
better know the grewtj and ftones^ v^hen we meet - with 
them at a didance in the neighbouring valley 5 for mineral 
ftonesmay be found 233^455 miles difiant from the Hills cr . 
Loadsj they belong unto* 
After any great Land-flood (In which it is fuppol'd 
there are fome new frets made in the fides of the banks,) v. e 
go and diligently obferve fuch frets (which ufually after 
liich floods are very clean) to fee^ if happily wecandifcover 
any metalline ftones in the fides or bottoms thereof^ toge« 
thar with the Caft of the Countrey (/. any earth of a dif- 
ferent colour from the reft of the bank) which is a great 
help to dired us, which fide or hill to fearch into. Nei« 
tber will it be much amifs in this place to fubjoyo thefewj 
but fure^ charafters of Mineral ftones^ by which Vv^e know 
the kind of rnctal^ and how much it yields. The firft way 
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