372 MINES OF CREMNITZ. 
CHAP. rare. The most remarkable are mentioned in 
IV. „ 
' a Note . 
The situation of Cremnitz is so elevated, that 
the Church of St. John, near the town, is believed 
to stand upon the highest point of all Hun- 
gary ^ Notwithstanding the fine season of the 
year when we visited this place, we were glad 
to have our rooms heated with stoves. It is 
the oldest of all the towns where there are 
mines : and of the seven famous mining districts 
— those of Schemnitz, Cremnitz, Neusohl, Konigs- 
berg, Bakahanya, Libeten, and Tiln — Cremnitz, 
although not the most abundant in precious ore. 
(1) 1. Red antimonial silver, crystaWized, coataming gold. 
2. Sulphuret of silver, crystallized in cubes, containing goW» 
3. Phosphate of lead, crystallized in hexagons. 
4. Pearl spar, in spheroidal tubercles, upon silrer ore. 
5. Moli/bdenous silver, crystallized, containing gold. 
6. Native gold, crystallized, as found at Cremnilx. 
7. The richest gold ore of Bakabant/a ; exhibiting a vein of 
auriferous quartz between a vein of auriferous j'^rites, and 
a vein of argentiferous galena, containing gold. 
8. Native gold, of Bo'itsa in Transylvania, crystallized, in 
octahedrons. 
9. Primary crystals of quartz, in the cubic form ; not pseudo- 
morphose. 
10. "Red pycnite from Moravia, traversing quartz . 
(2) Description Chronologique et Geographique du Royaume de la 
Hongrie, &c. p. 40. Cologne, 1686. 
