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MINES OF SCHEMNITZ. 
Council- 
chamber 
of the 
Imperial 
Mines. 
May1\. — We visited the most celebrated 
collections of minerals at Schemnitz and in the 
neighbourhood; particularly one (belonging to 
the Conseiller des Mines at fVind-.scliadi) remark- 
able for the superior beauty and abundance of 
the amethysts it contained . The owner afterwards 
conducted us to the Council-chamber of the mines 
belonging to the Croivn. It resembled a bank ; 
several clerks being employed writing at their 
desks. Upon shelves were exhibited the most 
magnificent specimens of the sulphurets of silver 
that had been lately found. Such specimens 
are here exposed for sale, according to their 
weight, to accommodate students in mineralogy ; 
without the smallest increase of price in con- 
sequence of their beauty or rarity •, being esti- 
mated only according to the value of the silver 
they contain. We bought several; and sent 
them to England, together with specimens of 
every kind oiore found in the Hungarian mines'. 
May 22. — We rose at five this morning, to 
(1) There is one remarkable ore called (Tieger Erz) Tiger Ore, wLicIi 
is found albo at Freyberg. (See Brochant, " Traile de Miner," torn. II. 
jj. 154. Farts, 1808.) It consists of the black sulphiu-et of silver, imbedded 
in its matrix, in the form of black spherical nodules, on a grey por- 
phyritic rock; so as to resemble the spots upon a /iger's or leopard's skin: 
and hence its name. 
