tlie Mitie ] fo as to flop up the lower paTt of this paffkge , then 
the damp becomes difcoverable, and commonly ftrong. I 
procarcd one to enter it ^ till his Lamp went out 4, or 5. times^ 
in the fame manner as at Grotto del Cane in Jcaly. 
Damps are not all of the fame force , but fome weaker , fome 
ftronger 5 fome fulfocate in afmallfpaee oftime, others only 
render the Workemen faint 5 with no further hurt, except 
they continue long the place. The Miners (who think thcm^ 
felves no Workmen, if they be not able to cure a Damp, or 
to cure the bad Weather , or make the Weather, as they term 
it> psrforme it by perflration , by letting the Aire in and onc^ 
and ciufing, as 'twere, a Circulation of ir. In the Mine ac 
Uerm-gYorndt they did cure a bid Damp by a greit paire of 
Bellowl 5 whicb were blown continually for many days; The 
ordinary remedy is by long Tubes , through which the Air 
continually paffing, they are able to digg ftreight on for along^ 
WJy without impediment in breathing. For fome CunictiU are 
500, fathoms 1< ag 5 which will not feeme ftrangeto any one that 
fliiUfee the Mapp of the Copper-mine tiHerrn-groHfjJtt ox the 
Gold' mine at Chremntz, And in the Silver-Trinity- mine by 
Schemmtz.l palTd quite under a great Hill, and<:arae out on 
the other fide. hiWmdfchach-miTithy Schmmtz they ftiow'd 
niethep'ace , where men and a Gentleman of qnility were 
loft 5 for which reafon they have now plac'd a Tube there. TJhe 
like they place over all doores , and over all ways , where they 
digg right on for a great fpice,ani have no paffage through .Ac 
Chremnitz they told me, that 28, men had been killed at one 
time in /^. Cmiculi , 7, in each 5 and in the finking pf Leopdd's- 
pitt, which is 1 JO, fathoms- deep, they were much troubled 
with damps, which they remedied in this manner* 
They fixed a Tube to the fide of the Schack or Pitty from 
the top to the bottom 5 and that not prouing fufficient, they 
forc'd down a broad flu board, which covered or ftopp'd the 
Pitt , or couched very near the fides of ir,on all fides but vfhere 
the Tube was 5 and fo forc'd oat all the Air in the pict through 
the Tube:, which work they were forc'd often to repeat. -And 
no^^they hiving divers other piffages into it , the Air is good 
>and fufBcienc • andl was drawn up th^ough-it without the; leaft 
.^rouble in breathing, . ^ ^ But 
