ed to powder , it becomes as white as if it were refin*d i And 
this Salt confifts of pointed parts or foffets. Another fort 
of Salt there is alfo, which confifts of Squares and Tables 5 
and a third, to be found of fomewhat ftirious or long 
(hoots. 
Nor is all the Salt of this Mine of one colour , but of 
divers 5 that which is found grofly mixt with the Earth , re- 
ceives fome colour from it. And even t^at y which is moft 
pure, ^nd refembleth Chryftal^ doth often receive Tindlures 
of feveral colours. In the middle of a Chryftal-Salt with 
long flioots, I have feen a delicate ilem-^ and Count JRcthal 
hath a large piece of a fair yeUoiv, There are alfo fome pie- 
ces very clear and tranfparent, fo hard, that they carve them 
into divers Figures 5 asCrofles, Crucifixes, and others. Of 
each of thefe I have obtain'd a piece^ 
ihefe are now imh and prefent the fame unto you^^ but 
omit to advmife you, that, 
fivcrai Specimens ofOres^ whcreas thele Saics, tcough kept WiCh- 
hsreafur mention'' d. out carc , remain'd dry for many months 
in other Countries , yet they began 
fomewhat to relent foon after I came into England-^ and 
if they be kept in a Stove, or very hot place, they will be 
apt to lofe their Traufparency, I could not hear of any Damp 
in this Mine. 
But to proceed to theGold-and Silver-Mines , I fliall tell 
you, as to the formtr y That among the feven Mine-Towns 
in Hungayj ( which are not far from oae another , viz, 
ChremnitZ y SchcmnitZy Newfol > Koningsbergy Eochantz^Li- 
beten znd Tib ) Chremnitz is the richeftin Gold. They have 
alfo, at prefent, Gold-Mines at Bochmtz ZTid Kmingsberg% 
and they reportin that Ccuntrey, that there hath beenformei-ly 
a rich Gold-Mine at Glafhitteny but loft^ fioce that Bethlcm Ga- 
^^r over-ran thofe parts^when the Undertakers ftopp'dupthe 
Mine, and fled. 
They have worked in the Gold-Mine at Chremnitz nine 
hundred years. This Mine is divers Englifti miles in length-, 
and about One hundred and fixty fathoms deep. Many veins 
of the Ore run to the North ^ and to the Eafi: They work 
^ alfo. 
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