386 MINES OF SCHEMNITZ. 
CHAP, which is stopped by means of friction. It is 
V. 
V. 
impossible to give a further description of such 
machinery, without the aid of models or charts. 
In the evening, a comedy was acted by the 
young students and ladies of Schemnitz. 
Madame Mohling performed the principal female 
Honours character; and after the comedy, there was a 
theirHigh- ball, iu houour of the Archdukes. We were 
invited to both. Their Highnesses complimented 
the inhabitants by appearing themselves as 
miners; wearing the peculiar dress which has 
been already described as the uniform of the mines, 
at the theatre, and afterwards at the hall. It 
was highly gratifying to us, to bear testimony 
to the encouragement and judicious patronage 
bestowed by the German Government upon every 
thing connected with the science of mineralogy , 
and with the art of mining. The dances con- 
sisted of minuets and waltzes. During the time 
the latter continued, being stationed with the 
two young princes in the center of the apartment, 
around which the waltzers flew with surprising 
velocity, there was no possibility of retreating; 
nor did there seem to be any probability of an 
end to the rapid whirling of the couples thus 
engaged, until about midnight; when the dance 
ceasing, the royal party retired. 
