(IIPl) 
Great quantity of this Salt is brought down the River Titif- 
cusy and the Rivers running into it ; Some of which is afterwards 
fent down the Danube ^ and up the Morava to furnifli Servid, and 
the adjacent Pro vincess and a great part of it up the Danube 
into Hungary 5 having myfelf feen? divers Long-boats la- 
den in many places betweeH Belgrade and Presburg^ but 
they come up no higher 5 Stone-5alt being prohibited by 
the Emperour in Au^rinj who hath a confiderable profit 
upon the boy lcd# Salt brought from Hall-fladt in that Pro- 
vince. 
In my Return from the Mine-Towns in Hungary^ I met with 
Count Rothall at Franfchiny going then from the Emperour to 
treat with Abaffi Prince of Traf^fyhania his Commiflioners 
ac Eperies : where I engaged fome of his Attendants , not 
unknown to me, to make inquiry into the Salt- Mines of 
that place, or any other, according to the inftrudions I left 
with them 5 and afterwards I received an Accompt to this 
Effeft. 
Half anhours going from the City Eperies, there isaSalt- 
Mine of great note 5 from the firft place of defcent unto the 
bottom, it is about One hundred and fourfcore fathoms deep: 
Into this the Miners defcend firft by Ropes, and at laftbyLad* 
ders unto the lower parts. The Mine is for the moft part in an 
Earthy, and not a Rocky ground. 
The Veins of Salt are large, and there are pieces to be found 
of Tenthoufand pound weight. They commonly hew out the 
S^lt into Long fquare pieces of two foot in length , and one in 
thicknefs; andforufe^it is broken and grinded between two 
grind- ft ones. 
The Mine is cold and damps but the Salt being a Stone- 
Salt, is not eafily diflblv'd, or at leaft in any great quan- 
tity, by dampnefs or moifture: Yet the water of the Mine 
is impregnated with Sak in fuch fort , that being drawn 
out in large Buckets , and afterwards boyl'd up , it affords 
a blackifli Salt, which they give to their Cattle in the Coun- 
trey. 
The Colour of the ordinary Stone-Salt of this Mine is not 
very white, butfomewhat gtey^ yet being broken and grind- 
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