TO THE CAPITAL OF THE BANNAT. ^13 
richer ores, as soon as they are brought up chap. 
from the mine, are carried in wooden troughs ■ 
to the separating rooms, and there parcelled, as 
nicely as possible, by officers who act under 
oath : the poorer are separated in the wash- 
works, by iron sieves ; a process which we 
shall more particularly detail, when we treat of 
the mines of Schemnitz and Cremniiz. In these 
ores the tellurium appears in minute dark 
specks, or veins, in a hard grey rock, some- 
what resembling the appearance of the oxide 
of tin in the common tin-ores of CornwalL 
Provisions are extremely dear at Nagyag, 
being carried thither by porters or upon horses, 
and therefore the wages of the miners are 
higher than in other places : nevertheless. Born 
calculated, that in the course of twenty years, Profit of 
above four millions of Jlorins, in gold and silver, 
had been produced, clear of all expenses, by 
the Nagyag mine. At the time of our arrival, 
it had been constantly worked during sixty 
years ; and it was fully as productive as at any 
period of its prosperity. Whether it were 
owing to the high wages given to the miners. Miners, 
or to the salubrious state of the atmosphere at 
so great an elevation, we could not learn ; but 
we remarked that we had never seen such 
