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fuch a place as Golde-Cranachum in his fecond Book gleveter, & novis Me' 
tallis p. 400 i'^ter Francos • and in his fifch Book de Nature FoffiUum 
f 254. mention is made of one place zdWdiGdde-cYQnay and another nam'd 
G vide- CrAndc urn ' 
Concerning the Silver-mines, there are divers of them at Schemmt^c 
in' Hungary^ as the windschacht^ the Trinity^ of St* BeneciiCt^o^ St, John^ 
of the three Kings, and feveral others of lefTer note. The chiefeft and 
moft wrought are thofeof prindfchachtSLnd Trinity. 
They have no River here, but much water in the Mine?, which is a 
double inconvenience to them , viz.. to want water above , and to be 
glutted with it under ground, fo as they are conftrained to fend much of 
their Ore to Hodrjtz, and other places, where are fmall Rivers, by which 
their 3cliows and Hammers may bemov'd. their Ore pounded, waflied 
and other works requifite performed. Nor do they want Engins to pump 
the wnter out of the Mines, mov'd by wheels drawn ?.bout continually by 
horfes, i2horfcsata time to each wheel. 
In mndfchack-mme^ deep in the earth, is a large wheel of 12 yards 
diameter, turn*d about by the fall of fub terraneous waters. This wheel 
moves Engines, which pump out the water from the bottom of the Mine 
up to the cavity,wherein this wheel is placed. The water, which moves this 
whed,fans no lower into the Mine, but pafTeth away through a CpmicnlM 
made on purpofe,through which both this & the other water, pump d from 
the deepelt parts of the Mine,do run out together at the foot of an HilL 
TrmVj-Mine is 70 fathoms deep- built and kept open with under* 
work at a great expence. Much of this Mine being in an earthy foyl, the 
Ore of it is much efteeraed. Divers veins lye North and other rich 
veins run to the North'Eafi, When two veins crofs one another , they 
efteem it fortunate. So that all veins of Ore keep not the fame point 
even in the fame Mine-, which would be an help to difcover them- but 
they have no certain way to know either which way they run, or where 
they are, till by the induftrious perfevering in the labour of the Mines 
they are at laft found out; They ufe not the Firgula divina^ but dig al- 
wayes as the A dventurers defire. They fhew'd me one place, which they 
had digg'd ftreight on 6 years, when the Ore was but two fathoms diftant 
from the place where they firft begm : And in another pK^ce they digg'd 
12 years outright, and at laft found a vein, which in a ftiort time paid 
their charges • 
The blicki(h Silver Ore is efteem'd the bed; much of it hath a mix- 
ture of a fhlning yellow fubftance or Marchafite, which if it be not in too 
gre^ta quantity, is not unwelcom, byreafon thatitdifpofeth the Ore to 
flaidity or renders it more eafe to be melted but if it be in too great 
a proportion, they are of opinion^ that it preys upon the Silver in the 
Mine , and in the Furnace carries it away while it mclteth , by over- 
volatili- 
