and hot in Winter at the bottom of the Mines, byfurer proofs 
than the Teftimony of our Touch ? 
5® Whether they ever meet with places and Stones aftually 
very hot 3 as Matthcftus relates ? And whether that fpring not 
from the quenching of Marchajites .<? 
4. Whether they find in the Mines any Mineral Geliy 3 fuoh 
as the German Naturalifts call Ghur .<? And whether in procefs of 
time it will harden into a metal 3 or Mineral Concretion ? 
5* What are the Laws, Conftitutions 3 and Cuftoms 3 Oeconomi- 
cal s Political^ Ethical 3 that are receiv’d and pra&is’d among the 
Mine-men ? 
6 . W 7 hether the Diggers do ever really meet with any fubter- 
raneous Demons 5 and if they do 3 in what fhape and manner 
they appear $ what they portend 5 and what they do s &c? 
7. Whether they obferve in the Trees and other Plants 9 
growing over or neer the Mine 3 not only, fas hath been al- 
ready intimated ) that the Leaves are any whit gilded or filver’d 
by the afcending Mineral Exhalations ? but alfo 3 that the Trees 
or other Plants are more fclid and ponderous ? And if they have 
not alfb feme difcernable Metalline or Mineral Concretes 3 to 
be met with in the fmall Cavities and Pores of their fub fiance ? 
8. Whether there be not Springs 3 and alfb greater Streams 
of Water neer the Mine, that rife 3 and run their whole courfe 
under ground., without ever appearing above it ? 
9. Whether the Subterraneous Springs do rife with any wind 
or determinate change of weather? 
10. How much heavier the Atmofphere is at the bottom of 
the Mine, than at the top? And whether Damps confiderably 
Increafe the weight of it ? 
11. Whether they find any ftran^e fiibftances in the Mines 5 
asVeffels. Anchors, Hfhes inclos’d in Span or Metal, &c. .<? 
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