mmmmmmmam
futsh, thing- wi^xgutyopular-p^pf, *, .bdpg foon interrupted >and
dj^nyLfing ( to-, p o th s g ^ h ^ ,ttjinef, muft e&atanU&i'te), dig through
-tj^bar-ig:n (ro§ky till he hasthq^go^d/Cgrtun^tOtlilJ^i miore, which
in one day will reward the labour of'.a whole jin^^h}^ dj^e^eh^of
fo’me, yfears, fo that <|iope m aj&bc 'fdtkip' be the^jpj^ bf^isiWoflc,'
‘thrpugh fo many interfbcesp«fiy- wmhfUthe wolhmanfhmft not be1
djfcqftfagedy but'pc/fu trq m, hisdeaich in atfulj p^rfjaafion, that
ore leadsjto'©re. Were it jidQqfjtliHlS’harren^ii^bftiQes all the
filver-woMspm Europe ro^tr^’ c^Ii^ not come in 'Competition
wfth that or~Kpn Wietg^ t h e ; '
ferred frpm^KM*hh'£ i diu.tin. dilo ur i.tLKJi ^>1 h Imi^, liur-
lefs labour,fuddenly exhibits‘feVeral moufandhrbtmd, fyeight' of
,Bllerj aKal thus difchatges ally arihars, and lembatrafliupnts, grid
ahhmat-es to further^pfbleqtiuonl ^ ,J,>TJxe labour\piefefore isa-Mvicf _
!in vain, "mpt even', when hlhpft~dppe^®t'ra,-‘mme tlipufands, of
hands, who are employed therein, and of whom a lift .fhall.be
given in the feqqel, always «earn their"daily funrfqrt. llfjjthig were
all theqaWfit,'which Kow^xii^Vciji^ the cafe,) yet
jt would ‘not be’iuconfidcrablc, fdV' tmratcpimtion 'or the;u1ver .by*
which lo'fhany families are maintainpd,.and which fhu^‘ ^Cuiatcs
all over" the- cpiunfry, muff be efteemea a great emolument to/the
phblic» In proof pf the lhi"gei and mafles of filveP%or$ained
in the mines' dy'Norway^pIj fhall ,onj|y qbfefyh^vthat in the royal
’ihhfeum at Copenhagen, a p§<^e: is jjpr1e%yedJ, r%hich the fvligle .
world cannot produce an equal, its w a gh t being five hundred
and fixty pound, and its value five thbufancl rix d o llars -f-. Be-
* Non in omnibus argenti-fod-ihis hoc invenitur, adeo ut, in tale detur, dubitaffi
videatur Plinius alique yeteres. ^onacdumr in Rhetfa, dStorico, Dacia, fed in qui-
bufdam. Mifense fodinis, licet non in omnipusf et in Norvegia fin Regio monte fre-
• queritiffime et in magna copia, ut exiinde mafias jquandoqueieitendantiir poh’dere aliquot,
centcnarum libra rum, Ol. Worm. Mufeum, p. frig- -
+ Of this mafs of Isorway-filvtf, Olig JacobeUsin Ms \lnft um Regium, page 31,
gives the following delfeljption,.! Minera ingens argenti ex fodinis Norvegias, pedum
quinque et pollicum fex longitudinem ipquat, fca-affitiem .vero mfeircumferentia pedum
quatuor. 'Anno 1666: d. 24. Augulti ex fodinaTSTorv Regiomontana, quas novs
fpei appeliaiur vulgo, nye Forhaabnings Grube, extradta.eft 560 librarum pondetp,.'et
a praefedto fodinas ttiemoratae, pretio 5000 impenfflilfri eflnmataA Htite Son diffimilis
malfa, aniio 1-630, regnante in Dania,divo Chriltiano quartoiex fpdina hforvegica qu.se
benedictio diyinaivulgo, Seegen G'dt'tSiappellatun efutaeir,, quas'Jzyi. Imperialium
pfetio ellimata; to which.I mall add, that:in the!yea&iyfqi; in' the fhaft callediSaint
Andrew, was found a piece of pure fdver of two .hundred and feventy nine pound, as
■ was in the year 1727, one pf two hundred and forty-five pounds, in the mine called
Prince JRoyal, and in the, fame yeat anp.ther we^hki'g;fltfe.e', hundred and. four ppunds
was found in the Gpd’s-blefling fhaft,> fhefe .fprei'gn ipinera who- have come into thefc-
parts, made a difficulty of believing ft, ;iiil dieir own eyesTOnvinred themffof the uaith. .
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