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grinding the Ore gotten fi-om its own banks. The places and names 
of the many parcicolar Ivlines of ihac Country, fee in chap. 27, 
-and 28. 
28» ThattheMine,caird O/i?^/^<?intheL^/e^ was at the top, in 
a iBanner,all Q/pfr, & every Spades depth as they dug downwards, 
the Ore grew imre and more rkh m Silver ^ until it came to be 
pure Silver, ac thetx)rtoni of the Mine,where the water increafing 
to a mans height ftopp'd them from profecudng its further richef^: 
that there are many Mines 6i Copper in thefe ProvinceSjand that the 
bottoms of all the Mines, out of which Silverbath bee^l taken^ have 
been found to yield great ftore of it ; fa that, how many Silver- 
mines there are, fo many Mines there are efteem'd to be whence 
Copper may be got alfo, 
16. That thofe Provinces are not deftitute of lr^;^;though none 
employ their labour to feekitout or work it , becaufe there is 
fuch abundance of Silver that ingages their induftry. The places 
and nafties of divers Iron-mmts m that Country are particularized 
chap73o. 
17. That there hath been no Silver-mine difcover'd in all that 
Kingdom, wherein fome Lead hath not been found ; which metal is 
rarely found mingled with Gold, moftcommonfy with Silver^ and 
fometimes with Ci»/>p^r. 
1 8. That Tmalfo is not wanting in thofe rich Provinces ; there 
being a Farm of Mines,nam'd de Col^uiri^ not far from the hill of Sto 
Pkilip de /^ujlria de ORURO^ \vhich is famous for the abundance 
and excellency of jR;??, gotten there, wherewith they have fjroifli'c 
all that Kingdom. See other tm-mmes marked ch.3 2, 
19. T\m the ^ick-filver^ come to Potoji for coUt&ing the Sil- 
ver out of the Ore, and regiftred upon the King of Seam's account 
^.15 74.and from that time till i64©,amounted upwards of 204600 
quintals^ befides a vaft quantity brought in upon other acccurics : 
fhat^ tofupply theexceffiveexpenceof this Mineral, they have 
difcover'd the famous Mine of Guamahellica :^ and that there aie 
other Quick-filver mines in the Provinces fubjedl to iheCharcas^-^vA 
i n CMlktiri^ and near to Guarma,&cc. 
There is a feco^d book annexed to thefirft ; about the ReSning 
of Silver by Quick^filver j which w^e muft refer toanother oppor- 
tunity, - 
