Projekt: Bestände der Universitätsbibliothek Freiberg
LDP: UB Freiberg Druckschriften
Strukturtyp
Monographie
Parlamentsperiode
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Wahlperiode
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Titel
A Discovery Of Subterranean Treasure
Untertitel
Viz. Of all Manner of Mines and Minerals, from the Gold to the Coal; with plain Directions and Rules for finding of them in all Kingdoms and Countries. And also, The Art of Melting, Refining, and Assaying of them is plainly shewn; so that every Man of an ordinary Capacity may, with a small Charge, presently try the Value of such Oars as shall be found either by Rule or by Accident. To which is added, A real Experiment, whereby every one may presently try whether any Piece of Gold that shall come to his Hands be true or counterfeit, without defaceing or altering the Form thereof, and more certainly than any Goldsmith or Refiner whatsoever can do. Also A perfect Way to try what Colour any Berry, Leaf, Flower, Stalk, Root, Fruit, Seed, Bark, or Wood will give; with an infallible Method of preparing Colours, which shall neither stain, nor fade, like ordinary Colours. Very necessary for every one to know, whether he travels by Land or Sea, or in whatsoever Country, Dominion, or Plantation he may reside
( '79 ) Day and Hour, with certain Words and Ce remonies at the cutting up of the fame, which I have found to be little to the Pur- pofe. Thus I wrought about Midfummer, in a calm Morning : I cut up a Rod of Hafel, all of the fame Spring’s Growth, almoft a Yard long; then I ty’d it to my Staff, in the middle, with a ftrong Thread, fo that it did hang even, like the Beam of a Balance : thus I carry’d it up and down the Mountains where Lead growcd, and before Noon it guided me to the Orifice of a Lead-mine, which I try’d, having one with me with an hacket of Iron and a Spade ; and within two Hours we found a Vein of Lead Oar, within lefs than a Foot of the Grafs: The Signs that it fheweth is to bow down the Root-cnd towards the Earth, as though it would grow there, near unto the Orifice of a Mine ; when you fee it does fo, you muff carry it round about the place, to fee that it turneth in the String ftill to the fame Place, on which Side foever you ftand. The Rcafon of this Attraction I conceived to be of Kin to the Load-fkme, drawing Iron to it by a fecret Virtue, inbred by Na ture, and not by any Conjuration, as fome have fondly imagin’d. And the Rcafon of this my Opinion was,, becaufe that in divers of my pra<ticaJ Ex periments I have obferved an Attra&ion be twixt feveral things, like that of the Load- ftonc and Iron ; and if it were to good Pur- pofe, I fuppofc that I could fhew more Expe rience of that Kind than any Man in Eng land, I 0 Now