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A Journey srom Komara to the Mine-Towns in Hungary. 6?
which nature so curiously performs in the Mine, I have since seen at-
tempted to be imitated by Art; and in my judgment successfully.
After that I had seen many of the most remarkable places in the
Mine, I returned to the Verwaiter of Herrn-Grwdt his House, and put
my clothes on again in the Stove : where we were afterwards very
kindly entertained. He (hewed me a Map of that Mine wherein we
had spent moll part of that day; and the delineations of all those
places we had been at, with a Scale to measure the lengths and distan-
ces of all Passages and Places in the Mine ; and it was very delightful
to see so large a Draught or Picture of so fair a Subterraneous City: nor
can I term it less, in which there is more building than in many. The
extent forpasses mod, and the number of the Inhabitants are conside-
rable, their Order admirable, their Watches exadt, their Rest undi-
sturbed, grateful after Labour and refrelhing, they reposing themselves
eight hours in the hollow7 of a Rock after the same time spent in labour;
besides this Map, he shew’d me many curious Minerals taken out of
that Mine, and by heating the Copper-Ore, and calling it into water,
made the water like some natural Baths wzhich arise near these Hills.
And upon my commending the Vim. ent water and its strange Opera-
tion upon Iron, he presented me with divers fair pieces, and a chain
of Copper transmuted in those Springs. They make also very hand-
some Cups and Vesiels out of this sort of Copper, and we drank out of
one of them which was gilded over, and had a rich piece of Silver-
Ore fastned in the middle of it; and this Inscription graved on the
outside:
Eifen ware ich, Eapfer I in ich
Silber trag ich , Goldt be deckt mich. i. e.
Copper I am, but Iron w as of old,
Silver I carry, cover’d am with Gold,
The profit which the Emperor makes by his Mines, is reckoned to
amount to an hundred and twenty Thousand pounds fl er ling* yearly.
But when they come to deal with deeper and richer veins of Ore, and
that there shall be by degrees more of these Vitriolate Copper springs
discovered, this revenue will then be encreased. And it is more than
probable that time will bring more of them to light; for at zW/McZ’,and
other places near the Carpathian Hills there are divers of the same
springs already made use of. But if furthermore, considering the no-
bleness of these springs, containing in them the true mature Salt of Ve¬
nus, some Persons hereafter shall be so fortunate, as moreover to diL
cover and experimentally improve the use of Springs and Fountains
saturated with a Vitriolum Lung, and learn perfe&ly how to adapt
Metalline Bodies to the adequate energy, and activity of such waters;
The improvement by transmutation as it is at present more than ten to
one, so it will in those dayes amount to above a hundred to one, and
the use of these Mines and Metalline labours may hereby efledually
prove in times to come one of the Richest Jewels in the Imperial
Crown.
From Herrn-Grundt we came to Stuln, a Town three Hungarian
miles distant from Newssol, and two from Chremnitz; where near unto
which nature so curiously performs in the Mine, I have since seen at-
tempted to be imitated by Art; and in my judgment successfully.
After that I had seen many of the most remarkable places in the
Mine, I returned to the Verwaiter of Herrn-Grwdt his House, and put
my clothes on again in the Stove : where we were afterwards very
kindly entertained. He (hewed me a Map of that Mine wherein we
had spent moll part of that day; and the delineations of all those
places we had been at, with a Scale to measure the lengths and distan-
ces of all Passages and Places in the Mine ; and it was very delightful
to see so large a Draught or Picture of so fair a Subterraneous City: nor
can I term it less, in which there is more building than in many. The
extent forpasses mod, and the number of the Inhabitants are conside-
rable, their Order admirable, their Watches exadt, their Rest undi-
sturbed, grateful after Labour and refrelhing, they reposing themselves
eight hours in the hollow7 of a Rock after the same time spent in labour;
besides this Map, he shew’d me many curious Minerals taken out of
that Mine, and by heating the Copper-Ore, and calling it into water,
made the water like some natural Baths wzhich arise near these Hills.
And upon my commending the Vim. ent water and its strange Opera-
tion upon Iron, he presented me with divers fair pieces, and a chain
of Copper transmuted in those Springs. They make also very hand-
some Cups and Vesiels out of this sort of Copper, and we drank out of
one of them which was gilded over, and had a rich piece of Silver-
Ore fastned in the middle of it; and this Inscription graved on the
outside:
Eifen ware ich, Eapfer I in ich
Silber trag ich , Goldt be deckt mich. i. e.
Copper I am, but Iron w as of old,
Silver I carry, cover’d am with Gold,
The profit which the Emperor makes by his Mines, is reckoned to
amount to an hundred and twenty Thousand pounds fl er ling* yearly.
But when they come to deal with deeper and richer veins of Ore, and
that there shall be by degrees more of these Vitriolate Copper springs
discovered, this revenue will then be encreased. And it is more than
probable that time will bring more of them to light; for at zW/McZ’,and
other places near the Carpathian Hills there are divers of the same
springs already made use of. But if furthermore, considering the no-
bleness of these springs, containing in them the true mature Salt of Ve¬
nus, some Persons hereafter shall be so fortunate, as moreover to diL
cover and experimentally improve the use of Springs and Fountains
saturated with a Vitriolum Lung, and learn perfe&ly how to adapt
Metalline Bodies to the adequate energy, and activity of such waters;
The improvement by transmutation as it is at present more than ten to
one, so it will in those dayes amount to above a hundred to one, and
the use of these Mines and Metalline labours may hereby efledually
prove in times to come one of the Richest Jewels in the Imperial
Crown.
From Herrn-Grundt we came to Stuln, a Town three Hungarian
miles distant from Newssol, and two from Chremnitz; where near unto