yet the Mercnry getting Into their Bodies , they are ianguMiIng^ 
lydeftroyed by it. Much lefs could I hear any news of eith e 
lioxious or innocent Apparitions, Firuncttli S>cc. fuch as fome 
write , and many talk of in other Mines. 
In a Laboratory, where the Quickfilverisfeparated byFire,l 
fawan heapof i5ooo. Retorts of Iron 5 every one of which cofts 
a Crown at the beft hand from the Iron-furnaces in Carmthia. 
There are 800. Retorts and as many Recipients employ'd to- 
gether, in drawing over the Quickfilver in 1 5. Furnaces; 50, in 
each Furnace, 25. of a fide, 12. above, and ij. below of 
each fide. 
^une i2,when I was there, they carried out 40. Saumes of 
Quickfilver into forrain parts , each Sau?m containing 315. pound 
weight, tothe value of 400 ducats of Gold. Though thecon- 
veyance be not eafy , yet fome is fent as farr as Cremmtz in Hun» 
gArj , for the ufe ot the Gold-mines % and very much carried a- 
way South ward. For, though theRi'ver by the Town be but 
fmall, yet they are not very farr from the sontius ox Ljjonz^o^ a 
confiderable River, which runs into the C\x\{ oiTriefic in the 
Adriatick Sea. 
In theCaftle I faw 3000 Saumss of Qiilckfiiver tog; ther , in 
barrels-, the Quickfilver being firft made up in double leather; 
And in another houfe as much rich Ore, as can be diftiird in 2. 
years, except they have greatplency of rain to bring down the 
wood 5 but, the Hills being high about them,it fnows at the tops 
of thcmoftner than it rains. 
The Countrys , through which I pafs'd , arc fingularly wdl 
wooded ,-and well ftor'd with fair Trees , wherein, befidc fuch as 
grow with us in England , are ftately Tirrs. Larches y fines^Pinaf" 
terSy Picea%^ and that nobly crifped and well grained kind oiA- 
cer^vjhtxtoi Fiols Siud Fhlm are made: Whereof there is alfo 
plenty in the Country of Sdtzburg and CarinthU, 
Travelling fometimes in the night, we had continually about 
us a great number of large Glcw-mrms , which put into papers 
gave a dimm light like Candles in Lanthorns; and the Aire al- 
lb full of flaming Fly cs , affording fome delight to us. 
The way unto th s place Ifound difficult 5 for, travelling from 
places on the borders oiCroatlahy L^vitch^ I was fainc topafs 
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