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66 A Journey srom Komara to the Mine-Towns in Hungary,
off from its Sediment ; which Sediment is again washt and (lirr’d up
in several Vessels and Troughs, till at length they sprinkle Quick-(li-
ver upon it, and knead it well together for an hour or two ; and then
walking it again in a wooden Velsel, after the separating of much of
it, which the Quick-silver touches not, by linking this Vessel againPt
their leg, they bring the Gold and Quick-silver together in an Awal-
gamay to one corner of it. From this Amalgam a they drain as much os
the Quick-silver as they can through course cloths sirst, and then
through fine. They put the Mass remaining upon a perforated Plate,
which they set over a deep Pan placed m the Earth ; in the bottom os
which Pan they also put Quick-silver : This Pan they cover, and lute
the cover well, and then make a Charcoal fire, upon it, and drive down
the Quick-silver yet remaining in the Gold to the resl in the bottom of
the Pan ; and then taking out the Gold, they call: it into the fire that
it may dill become purer.
.After some few days having seen the moil remarkable curiosities of
Chremnitz,! went to Neivfol; palling those Hills which lie on the
Easl-fide of Chremnitz, upon the top os one of which lies a vasl Stone
or Rock alone by it self , near the way-side ; these Hills asiord wood
for the Service of the Gold-Mine. Palling on further we were not far
from Lila, a Village, where they find Quick silver ; and after we had
travelled over the Quick-silver Hills, we came again to the River
Gran, upon which Neivfol (lands ; there is a Bridge of W7cod to pals
the River at this Town, and an handsom building of Piles (boring cross
the River to (lop the wood thrown into this River, ten miles higher,
where the Country is very full of wood: and by this Artifice with-
out labour or charge, it is conveyed to Newfol, to be used in the work-
ing of the Copper-Ore,and in the burning, melting, calling, hammering
of the Copper.
Neivjolis an handsome Town, and hath a large Piazza, at the upper
end whereof (lands a fair Tower. The Cadle also is worth the see-
ing, in which is the Church covered over with Copper; within the
Church there are many Figures of carved Wood, and some Reliques :
but being in the posiesiion of the Lutherans they are not much re-
garded, though carefully preserred. As I also observed in some £#-
the ran Churches in Germany, as at Nuremberg, and Magdeburg, where
(ome Reliques had been left; which they have not parted with, but dill
keep as rarities.
At this Town, and near unto it, are the greated Copper-works in
Hungary, the body of the Copper being very strongly united to its
Stone, Bed, or Ore, the separation of it is efiedled with great la-
bour and difficulty ; for the Copper-Ore taken out os the Mine is
burned and melted fourteen times before that it becomes sit for use;
and first it is melted with a Stone which they call Fluss-bbein, and its
own dross, and with Kis or a sort of Pyrites. It is afterwards carri-
ed to the Rosi-hearth, where it is laid upon great (lacks or heaps
of Billets, and those let on fire under it; by which means it is bur-
ned into a substance called Roji, and this is repeated seven or eight
times; afterwards it is melted again in the melting Furnace? and at
two Furnaces more at Mifmills, and twice at the Hammer.
Here they also melt AA which is brought hither from Jefina^ which
substance melted is serviceable in the melting of Silver.
At
off from its Sediment ; which Sediment is again washt and (lirr’d up
in several Vessels and Troughs, till at length they sprinkle Quick-(li-
ver upon it, and knead it well together for an hour or two ; and then
walking it again in a wooden Velsel, after the separating of much of
it, which the Quick-silver touches not, by linking this Vessel againPt
their leg, they bring the Gold and Quick-silver together in an Awal-
gamay to one corner of it. From this Amalgam a they drain as much os
the Quick-silver as they can through course cloths sirst, and then
through fine. They put the Mass remaining upon a perforated Plate,
which they set over a deep Pan placed m the Earth ; in the bottom os
which Pan they also put Quick-silver : This Pan they cover, and lute
the cover well, and then make a Charcoal fire, upon it, and drive down
the Quick-silver yet remaining in the Gold to the resl in the bottom of
the Pan ; and then taking out the Gold, they call: it into the fire that
it may dill become purer.
.After some few days having seen the moil remarkable curiosities of
Chremnitz,! went to Neivfol; palling those Hills which lie on the
Easl-fide of Chremnitz, upon the top os one of which lies a vasl Stone
or Rock alone by it self , near the way-side ; these Hills asiord wood
for the Service of the Gold-Mine. Palling on further we were not far
from Lila, a Village, where they find Quick silver ; and after we had
travelled over the Quick-silver Hills, we came again to the River
Gran, upon which Neivfol (lands ; there is a Bridge of W7cod to pals
the River at this Town, and an handsom building of Piles (boring cross
the River to (lop the wood thrown into this River, ten miles higher,
where the Country is very full of wood: and by this Artifice with-
out labour or charge, it is conveyed to Newfol, to be used in the work-
ing of the Copper-Ore,and in the burning, melting, calling, hammering
of the Copper.
Neivjolis an handsome Town, and hath a large Piazza, at the upper
end whereof (lands a fair Tower. The Cadle also is worth the see-
ing, in which is the Church covered over with Copper; within the
Church there are many Figures of carved Wood, and some Reliques :
but being in the posiesiion of the Lutherans they are not much re-
garded, though carefully preserred. As I also observed in some £#-
the ran Churches in Germany, as at Nuremberg, and Magdeburg, where
(ome Reliques had been left; which they have not parted with, but dill
keep as rarities.
At this Town, and near unto it, are the greated Copper-works in
Hungary, the body of the Copper being very strongly united to its
Stone, Bed, or Ore, the separation of it is efiedled with great la-
bour and difficulty ; for the Copper-Ore taken out os the Mine is
burned and melted fourteen times before that it becomes sit for use;
and first it is melted with a Stone which they call Fluss-bbein, and its
own dross, and with Kis or a sort of Pyrites. It is afterwards carri-
ed to the Rosi-hearth, where it is laid upon great (lacks or heaps
of Billets, and those let on fire under it; by which means it is bur-
ned into a substance called Roji, and this is repeated seven or eight
times; afterwards it is melted again in the melting Furnace? and at
two Furnaces more at Mifmills, and twice at the Hammer.
Here they also melt AA which is brought hither from Jefina^ which
substance melted is serviceable in the melting of Silver.
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