“ Damps are not all of the same force, but some weaker, some stronger; some suffocate in a small space of time, others only render the Workemen faint, with no further hurt, except they continue long in the place. The Miners (who think themselves no Workmen, if they be not able to cure a Damp, or to cure the bad Weather, or make the Weather, as they term it) performe it by perflation by letting the Aire in and out, and causing as 'twere, a Circulation of it. In the Mine at Herrn-groundt they did cure a bad Damp by a great paire of Bellows, which were blown continually for many days. ”

“ Lastly, as to their Art of Printing, which was invented among them about 50. years after Christ, their manner is, That they Cut their Letters with an instrument of Iron, (as we doe Wood-prints) upon some fit wood; lightly gluing the Written Copy thereon, whereby their Books are free from Errata's. They are very dextrous at it, and will cut a whole sheet, as soon as a Composer with us can set one; and one man will print off 1500. in a day. ”

“ IV. An EXAMEN of the way of TEACHING THE LATIN TONGUE by Vse alone. Englished out of French, and printed for Mr Martyn in London, 1669, in 12°. As Montagne learnt the Latin tongue by Vse alone, his Father having plac'd him in his Child-hood with such persons as spake nothing but that Language with him ”

“ Now whether these Eruptions are caused by actual subteraneous Fires, lighting upon combustible matter; or by Fire struck out of falling and breaking stones, whole sparks meet with Nitro-sulphureous or other inflamable substances heap'd together in the bowels of the Earth, and by the expansive violence of the Fire forc'd to take more room, and so bursting out with the impetuosity we fee; may not be unworthy of a Philosopher's speculation.
An Account
Concerning a Woman having a Double Matrix ”

“ They are met with not only in places, where the Earth is full of Clay or the like substances, but also where it is Rocky: and one place they shew'd me in the Copper-mine at Hern-groundt, where there had been a very pernicious damp, and yet the Rock so hard, that it could not be broken by their Instruments ”

“ Et si acies Dolabri acutissima et rectissima ita disponatur ad Axin, sicut se habet Linea Generatrix, rotante interim Mamphure, manifestum est Torno tam accuratas posse elaborari Hyperbolas quam Circulos, cum nihil aliud requiratur ad formandam Cylindroidem quam ad Cylindrum, nisi quod in Cylindris acies dolabri est Axi parallela, hic cero inclinata. ”

“ A. 1633. another, continuing several years, ⁠A. 1650. it burnt on the North-East-side, and vomited so much fire, that by the fiery Torrents, caused thereby, great devastation was made, as Kircher relates in his Mundus Subterraneus; whose assistance we have also made use of in the foregoing Chronology together with that of Philotheus.
The same Author, having been in Sicily himself, observeth, that the people of Catania, digging for Pumice-stones, do find at the depth of 100 palmes (which is about 68. feet) streets pave with Marble, and many footsteps of Antiquity ”

“ At Windschach-mine by Schemnitz they show'd me the place. where 5. men and a Gentleman of quality were lost, for which reason they have now plac'd a Tube there. The like they place overall doores, and over all ways, where they digg right on for a great space, and have no passage through. At Chremnitz they told me, that 28. men had been killed at one time in 4. Cuniculi, 7. in each; and in the sinking of Leopold's-pitt, which is 150. fathoms deep, they were much troubled with damps, which they remedied in this manner. ”