fP&f ground above 6 hours § all of them In time ( feme 
later, foroe.fooper) become fwdft.kk# and dye hUwks 
We fawmhfre a roan 9 who had not been in the Mines for- ■ 
above half a- ipr before 9 fo full: of Mw-cmy % that putting a 
piece of graft in his mouth , or rubbing it in his fingers 3 k 
Immediately became white like Silver ;■ f mean 9 he did the 
feme effect 9 as if he had rubbed upon ie 3 and fo pa- 
ra fy tidy that he could not with both his 'hands carry a'Giais. 
half full of Wine* to. his mouth, without fpiHfog # 9 though Ire 
loved it too well to: throw it away, 
I have been (inee Informcdyhat here in Venice , thofe that work 
on the- back-fid e of hooking* gMes , are alfo very fubjefi 
fo. the Pa/m I did not ofofervy that they had black Teeth} it 
maybe therefore, that we aceufe Mercury injuftly for fpoiling 
the ieethj when given in Venereal difeafes, I confefol did not ' 
think of it upon the place , but, black Teeth being fo very rare 
in this Country ? I think | could pot but have roarkt it, had all 
- theirs beep fo ? 
They ufe exceeding great quantity of Wood 9 In. making 
md repairing the logins , and in the Furnaces ( whereof 
there are 1 6, each of them carrying 24. Retorts}) but prim 
dpally in the Mines, which need continual reparation^ the 
Fir-trees lafring but a tell time under ground* They cop* 
vey their Wood thus ■? About four miles from the Mines, 
on the fitles of two mountains, they cut down the Trees, and 
-draw them into the interjacent Valley 9 higher in the fame 
¥ alley D fo that the Trees, according to the defeentof the 
lye betwixt it and Mr?a ; with vaft charges and 
quantities of Wood they make a Lock or Dam, that feffers 
pot any water to pafsy they expefl afterwards, till there be 
water enough £0 float theft Trees to Mm? for, if there be 
mt # fpring, (as generally there isj Rain, or the melting of 
the Snow, in -a foprt time, afford fo much water, as Is ready to 
run oyer the Dam,, and which (the Flood, gates 'being open'd) : 
fames $\\ the Tftts impetuoufly to ldrw 9 where- the 
Bridge ■ ?# bufllwery iron^nd H very oblique Angler to the 
fIfesHts m fm pefe f ©*' (top them # md throw them- on Chore 
' - . Thofe 
