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Land : All colour ofreafon is taken away from that conceit by the 
wonderful veins of ftone found in the high- way going from jP(?/^to 
OronejlA down the hill ; where (tones are gathered having upon them 
impreffionsof divers forts of figures in them, fomuch to the life, 
that none but the Aurhor of nature {faith our Jutbor^ could have 
produced fuch workmanlhip : Amongft which ftones one may fee 
(faith he farther J Cockles of z\l {ons, with the fmalleft lineaments 
of thofe fliclls drawn in great perfeftionjand this place in the heart 
of all the Country, and the moft double mountanous land therein, 
where it were madnefs (as he fpeaks) to imagine that ever the Sea 
had there only prevailed and lefcCockles only in this one part c f ir. 
8. That abundance of Ertmjlop^e in Mines is an efpecial good 
fign of their richnefs : A confiderable inftance whereof is the Rofe- 
Golored Ore of the famous mountain of St. Ifaklla of new Potoji ^ 
in the rich Province of the Lipes^ which is almoft all Plate,and bred 
among fuch abundance of Briraftone, that the cavities in the rocks 
are prefently all on fire, if a lighted candle touch them. 
9/ That theoplnion confining the Number of Metals to Seve;z 
is very uncertain, fince 'tis very probable, that in the bowels of 
the Earth there be more forts than w^e yet know ; and that in the 
mountdLins of Sud^os in Bohemia thcTGWzs ComG years ago found a 
metal, by them called Eifmmo^ which is a mecal between Tin and 
Lead, and yet d iftind from them both. 
I o. That many excellent Mines have been found out by chance, 
and many others by Art and Induftry ; concerprng w^hich latter dv- 
verswayes andfigns are here delivered, ch.24. 2^.. 
ir* That from Experience theory? place for riches of metal?, 
maybe affigned to thofe Veins that run North and South on the 
Nortbfideof the mountain; and that the four principal Mines in 
the Mountain P()f^ do obferve this point of the Compafs w ith a 
very little declination Weft ward : That from the fame ground, t'm 
feconcL place for that abundance may be given to them that run 
North and South, on the South-fide of the Hills; the beft veir>s 
of the fecond famous Mine of that Kingdom, Oruro^ running paral- 
lel to that poitrt of the Compafs : : That in divers places very ric 1 
Mines of metal run Eaft and Weft, and alfo to feveral other points 
of the Compafs ; fo that the beft rule co go by in this matter is, 
to follow the metal as it difcovers it felf, and to purfue it,as long z i 
one gains thereby or at leaftfaveshimfelf,. becaufe being fure to 
loofe nothing one hath, the Vein may lead him to great riches : And 
if the vein be large, and have any fignsof Gold or Silver iil it, al- 
though 
