markable places in it. The ftecp defcetits m this Mine are made 
by Ladders or Trees fee upright, with deep notches or flayers 
cut in them to flay the foot upon. They are not troubled with 
water, the Mine lying high in the hill, fo that the water may 
drain away but they are molefted with duft and damps. 
The Veins of this Mine are large^many of them cumulate,and 
the Ore very rich > in an hundred pounds of Ore they ordinarily 
finde twenty pounds of Copper, fometimes 30, 40^ half Cop- 
per, and even to 60 in the hundred. Much of the Ore is joyn'd 
fo faft to the rock, that tis feparated with much difficulty. 
There are divers forts of .Or^, but the chief difference is be- 
tween the Yellow and the Black : the Yellow is pure Copper* 
ore ; the Black contains alfo a proportion of Silver. 
They find no ^ick-pher here : the mother of the ore is yel- 
low and the Copper ore, heated and caft into water, maketh 
it become like that of fome Sulphureous Baths. 
They feparate the Metal from the Ore with great difficulty. 
The Or-ecommonly paffes 14 times through the furnaces s: 
fometimes it is burned) and other times melted 5 fometimes by 
it felf, and fometimes mixt with other minerals and its owe 
droft. 
Therei aredivers forts of ViVrfi?2 found in this Mine 5 Green^ 
Btewj Reddilft, and Wliite. There isalfo a Green Earth or ft- 
dimentof a green water-> called Berg-grun. There are likewife 
* Clones found of a beautiful green and ble^v colour, and one fort, 
on which t urcoifes have been found 5 therefore called the Mother 
" There are alfo two Springs of a Vitriolat water, which are^ 
'affirmed to turn iron into Copper. They are called the Old * 
and the Mew Ziment^ Thefe Springs lye deep in the Mine, The 
Iron is ordinarily left in the Water i 4 dayes. I here prefem yom - 
with fome pieees of it, and with an Heart and a Chain, formerly 
^rbn, now appeiiring to be Copper, Divers of thefe pieces t 
took out of the old ZimcnK They are hard within the water, 
and do not totally loofe their figure, and fall into powder , as 
you will perceive by them they will eafily melt, I haw fent a 
piece melted without the addition of any other fuhftance. They 
mafc^ haadfome Cups and VeCcls om of this Salt of Copper ? I; 
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