SECT. 1
Quartz.
g o , A T th -R 'A i H f S T O R Y
fimch as' can be afferted in this particular. In a pleritfMyear
we may fpafe a little quantity," for exportation, ife1ja -moderate
year hare enough -for ourfelvesj ‘in - a year*-'of Scarcity not hear
a competency. As- the ballance is- fo cveKi it is ^he'^ntereft of
the Comiih by ntfhfearis to flaxen Qr'^feddce*'t3»e' prefen t
of hufbandry, by withdrawing too greatJ a ’ number^-of hands
from itj for working’’their mine®?
membred, can employ and fobfift a peddle. #lthout "ihfhiBgi but
mining can do neither without hufbandry. If mining,- tempting
as it is with the hopes of fudden and immenfe gain, exceeds
much its prefentlimits, ^agriculture muft decay; it is beft therefore
to encourage-both' fo as; that did former may-promote the
plenty of money, the latter of food, and rayment, arid both the
h ap p in g of that ipat where they urifeei afiii ’re&procally rieliefvef
as they do at _preSent the deficiencies -o f each other. It Is -a
facetious, but no tmfofcuiftiveftory Which Pluiafeh&
Mulierum) gives us' bri this occafidri Vf‘ Pythis 'a-hin|J2hriylhgr
<c difcovered rich ■ minesiri his kmj^qm;, rithplOylii'ail hfe pedple
“ in digging them, whence tilling -was wholly negieae^,a€hibinueh^
“ ^ at a great famine. enfued. Hi^qrfeni foifebld o f’i$glala®Mes) •
‘ ‘ o f the country, invited ;the -king .her hufbarid to d&'fiery Ss he1
“ came home hungry
«‘ She fo contrived it that the brcad and mieat.wrire mbft artifieMy>
** ° f and; the king was mufch drili^ted^
“ eeit) bU at laft he 'balled for real meat to fatisfy his hunger.;-
“ Nay, faid the queeri^if^^u e m ^ ^ ^ ^ b i i f hi fBssk
“ mines, you mull expert to feed upon goldy for nothing elfoean
“ your kingdom afford you.” -
C H A P. IX.
O f the. Stones ‘ in Corrtpoall.
JN Cornwall, where there are not only ■ Qparries of frone as in
other parts for building, but a great number of mines, ^ Variety
o f nodes muft needs • offer itfelf to pur examination! They may
be all ranged under the following general. heads. " Firft,: ftone? o f
ufe. Secondly, Hones of ornament and.; cdrioftty. And thirdly,
ftones o f profit1. - ;; ' •••'•■ *j pa
Stones of ufe are either of inferiour, or important and neceflaryufe.
Among thefe o f feemirigly<finall importance* I muft reckomwhat
• Thus englilhed in F uller’i Holy State, p, i o j ,
1 W e fhall obferve as we go along the chfltu
trders, gmuffes, and fpecies of the chief ftones, i t
ranged by\ihe fyftematical writers, though we
.cannot entirely purfue their method, in a ,pard-
‘cular natural hiftory of a county.
the