394 MINES OF SCHEMNITZ. 
are inferior in comparison with these of Schem- 
nitz. The mode of descent into our English 
mines is always attended with difficulty, and 
almost always with danger : but the inside 
of an Hungarian mine may be compared to 
the interior arrangement of one of our best fri- 
gates; where space has been so husbanded, 
and cleanliness so strictly maintained, that 
nothing is seen out of its place, and there 
is room enough for every operation. Our 
ascent was not quite so agreeable ; because 
curiosity induced us to effect a passage up 
one of the shafts, perpendicularly, by the side 
of the pump : - here, besides the great fatigue 
of the undertaking, we were constantly ex- 
posed to falling showers of water from the 
machinery. After a long time spent in great 
exertion, we rose once more into the town of 
Sche7nnitz, 
In the evening, their Highnesses, the two 
Archdukes, returned from Cremnitz. The 
house of the Bergritter was illuminated for 
their reception, in the most elegant manner; 
and the whole corps of miners was reviewed 
the Corps by the two Princes, from a balcony belongino^ 
of Miners. . . . '' 
to this house. The sight was very striking. 
The miners appeared clad in their working 
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