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FROM BUKOREST, 
CHAP, healthy and robust miners as those of Nagj/ag, 
• A party of them descending to their labour, 
each bearing in his hand a large lamp, resembled 
the German miners figured in the work of 
George jigrkola^; and their countenances indi- 
cated a degree of health and cheerfulness not 
usually characteristic of such employment. 
Towards evening, having finished our exami- 
nation of the tellurium mine and its productions, 
we paid for our specimens, and took leave of 
Return to the luspector. Our descent to Deva was so 
rapid, that we reached the banks of the Maros 
in three hours and a half; and being ferried 
over to Deva, packed up our minerals, and 
prepared to continue our journey. 
Dobra, 
May A. — Came from i)eDa to Dobra, through 
the most beautiful scenery imaginable. Our 
route lay by the side of the Maros; flowing 
through a narrow, rocky, but fertile valley, 
between mountains covered with tufted woods 
of fine old beech and oak trees, waving their 
(l) " De Re Metallicd." See one of the curious old cuts in p. 152 
of the edition printed at Basle, by Konig, in 1657. This is the work 
that was so highly extolled by Thuanus. " Father George Jgri- 
cola" says Raspe, " is unparalleled in his scientifical knowledge : 
what he knew of the veins, their run, and their rules, he drew from 
the miners." See Pre/, to Bom's Letters, p. xxxiii. Lond. 1777. 
