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name has been given to the whole, as of a single chap. 
vein. Its distance from that of Johan-schadt is . 
300 fathoms. The works carried on in this vein 
are upon a more magnificent scale than in any 
of the others ; the galleries are better con- 
structed, and the machinery is of greater 
magnitude, and more costly: but it is never 
exhibited to strangers ; even their Highnesses 
the Archdukes were not permitted to descend 
into this mine. 
VI. The sixth vein is that of Green stohln, a Green- 
vein hardly known. It is the last which has 
been discovered at Schemnitz. The matrix of the 
ore is schistus, indurated clay, and pyrites. 
The two first veins lie near to the surface, and 
are very rich : they were the earliest discovered. 
The remains of their rich ores lie in the neiffh- 
bourhood of Schemnitz, to the north of all the 
other mines. The riches of the third diXidi fourth 
veins lie at the depth of 1 000 fathoms, upon the 
south of Schemnitz, towards JVind-schadt. The 
greatest produce of the Schemnitz ores, and which 
continued only during eight or ten years, was 
derived from a ramification of the third vein, 
distant 2000 fathoms south of the town, and 
called Siegehherg, In the year 1763, the 
