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what finer and whiter s the third, very white ^ and clear 
like Chryftah The courfe and black Salt is cut out in 
great pieces, rouodiflij and three Polonian Ells long, and 
one Ell thick , which cofts fifty to feventy Polonian Florins* 
Mean time the inhabitants of Cracow have a priviledge , 
whereby a certain number of pieces is to be delivered to 
them, eight fuch Florins the piece^ The great pieces lye 
at Cracow about the Streets , before the doors of the Citi- 
zens 3 as alfb in the Country , in the fraall Towns and Vil- 
lages, and before the Forts and houfes of the Nobility ^ 
Where the Cattelj palling to and fro , lick of thofe Salt- 
ftones, which afterwards by Mills and other Engines are 
grownd and beaten fmall for ufe. 
The Colour of thefe Salt-ftones is Darkifli gray, with 
fjme mixture of Yellow* The Fnftruments , wherewith 
they are digg'd and cut out, have almoft all German names 
with r^/(?w^» terminations A forj whenthis Salt-work was 
firft found 5 (which is now above four hundred years ago) 
the Mine-men , that firft began to work in it , were Ger- 
mans*^ whence the Voles have retain'd thofe names of the 
Tools, but given them foUJli terminations. 
Thefe Salt-works belong to the Kingof P^^/^W, who 
appoints and maintains the Officers of them^ and 'tis one 
of his beft Royal Revenues ^ amounting to eonfiderable 
fumsof moneys. There is tio lels than a thoufand men^ 
that are conftantly employed in thefe Mines ^ and there , 
was then a provifion of Salt, valued at two MillTon^; 
There are in thefe Works three Horfes , that ftay . always 
below having their Stable and other neceffaries there : 
they carry the Salt from the places, where lis cut and 
digg'd out, to thole 5 whence 'tis by the abovemention'd 
Wheel and Ropes drawn up , by a Horfe above ground^ 
going round about. The Horfes, after they have been a 
while under- ground, grow blind from the fharpneis of the 
Salt, andall thethreCj which then laboured there , were 
quite blind 5 and one of them, that had been longeft in 
thofe Mines, had the hoofs of his feet grown as long again, 
as they are ufuall}?, fo thateach hoof was near a Ipan long. 
