i6/^ ' The3\(atural Bijlory 
black) corrodes fome metallick, matter or other ; which fonl-^ 
times is Copfer^ and fomtimes Gold^ as Encd'im witneffeth it is at . 
Lauierberg and Goldeberg in Silefia^ in his Book Be re Metallica 
where he alfo further adds, that Gold is fmeked out of Cdtrfthum 
itMf A 
6r. Dr. Bro^r;? alfo tells iis, in the account of his Journey | 
from Ccmara to the Mine-Towns in Hungary % that at Schemnitz^^ • i 
where the filver Ore holds fome gold^ and at the fdver Mines in 
Feru^ there are Flocks covered over with a ffir (liining blue. Ru- 
landm^ alfo joins it with z fdver C^g at Giepvhdia^ and fo does 
Fhny " : What then fhould hinder but it may be fo here ? liiice 
I do not doubt it to be the (learn of a mineral ; for when I was at 
the bottom of the pit (above 5 0 foot deep) notwithftanding the 
opennefs of the plt^ and coolnefs of the day, no Sun appear- 
ing, I found it fo hot^ that the drops followed one another on 
my face , whence 1 judged the Mine-chamber not to be far 
off. 
62. Which 1 rather guefs to be of filver than of any other 
inetal^ becaufe of the Alabaftrint or (far-lilie fubflance found 
mix'dwithit; which, fays Mr. ff^ebfier^ was in fome places in- 
termixtalfo in the beft Silver-mine ever yet found in England., the 
Ore whereof held about fixty fix pounds perTnr\ From all 
which it may be concluded, that 'tis probable at leaft that here 
may have been formerly fuch a mine^ ftopt up as I firft thought by 
the Aboriginal Britans^ upon the arrival and conqiiefts of the Ro- 
mans or Saxons^ who not being able to recover their Country with- 
in the memory of man, it might be loft like the- Gold-mine 
Glafs-Hitten in Hungary^ when Bethlem Gabor over-ran chat Coim- 
trj'' ; or the Gold-mine of Cunobdine m Efjh^ difcover'd again 
temp. Hen. 4. as appears by the Kings Letters of Mandar/iu.6^ bear- 
ing date 1 1 May, An. 2. Rot. 34. diretced to Walter Fitz^Walter 
concerning it ^ ; and fince that loft again. 
^3. Till at length they found the Vrns^ and then 'twas plain 
and evident that it muft have been formerly fome Roman Work^ 
and probably ftill remains fome old Roman Mine, in all likelyhood- 
fcoptop, when Gallio of Ravenna {cnt hither with a Legion (the 
laft that ever was in Britan) to repel the Picts and Scots^ was fi- 
■5 MuPeinv MetaHiatmjl!b.'3^.cap.%, Encel de re MetsUka. cab. 2.^. ^ Account ot his Travels,^.. 93, 
94 c Mart .Rula'idi Lexicon Akhemice- " N^t Hfi- lib.:i^x. ca>. 12. * Hiftory of MetalS;, cap. 13. 
Dt-Broio;isTrdiVd.$im.oH.u?2gary. \ Sir Job?/ Fet^i.s hvj Fodi?.\t R gci.'.c.'^p 9.(^13. 
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