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A09740	A discovery of subterraneall treasure viz. of all manner of mines and mineralls, from the gold to the coale; with plaine directions and rules for the finding of them in all kingdoms and countries. And also the art of melting, refining, and assaying of them is plainly declared, so that every ordinary man, that is indifferently capacious, may with small change presently try the value of such oares as shall be found either by rule or by accident. Whereunto is added a reall experiment whereby every ignorant man may presently try whether any peece of gold that shal come to his hands be true or connterfeit [sic] ... Also a perfect way to try what colour any berry, leafe, flower, stalke, root, fruit, seed, barke, or wood will give: with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stayne nor fade like ordinary colours. ...	Plattes, Gabriel, fl. 1638-1640.	1639 (1639)	STC 20000; ESTC S100866	25,150	76

yet I would bee loath that any man should be thereby animated no take in hand great Voyages and consume his Estate in the pursuite of this designe deeming them to bee unpossible ever to faile but rather to make this a part of his businesse when hee shall come to such places as yeeld strong probabilities And so farre I am from envying the former wayes in finding them by accident that I have partly taken this paines that those which shall hereafter bee found by accident may not bee neglected as I conjecture that many have beene by my owne formerly mentioned For I could wish that many men had the like fortune that one had who in the climbing up of the great Mountaine called Potersee in the Kingdome of Perue in the West Indies tooke hold of a young Tree to stay himselfe withall and thereby plucked it up by the rootes whereunto there did adheare good Silver Oare which being tried and found rich hath ever since beene wrought upon and innumerable treasure and riches have therehence beene digged to the valew of many hundred Millions of pounds Sterling And to the end I may no longer stay the Reader with Preambles I will divide my booke into 12. Chapters like as I did my Booke Printed Anno. Dom. 1638. Entituled A discovery of hidden Treasure wishing all those that desire to be skilfull in these affaires to take a little paines to read that Booke which differeth from this no otherwayes but as the Art of Surgery differeth from the Art of Physicke for as Surgeons deale chiefly with the externall parts of mans body yet stand in need of the knowledge of all the parts and as Physitians chiefly deale with the internall parts yet cannot be without the knowledge of the exterttall parts So though that Booke treate wholly upon the discovering of the Treasures hidden in the superficies and exurball parts of the Terrestriall Globe yet the knowledge of many things therein contained are very conducible to make a skilfull Mineralist giving you further to understand that if any good will bee done at all it will bee done with a small Charge and with somewhat lesse than before this Booke was published if you observe the Contents thereof advisedly So I take my leave and rest Your hearty Well-wisher G. P. THE TABLE CHAP. 1. Wherein is shewed by a playne Demonstration the naturall cause of the Generation and production of Mountaynes and Mettals whereby the Seekers may obtayn a good competent measure of knowledge to guide them where to seek for the other external signs Chap. 2. Wherein is shewed the signes of Mines and Minerals with the manner how to worke to find the same pag. 9 Chap. 3. Now that we are come to the melting and refining of Metals I will begin first with the Oare of Lead because that is one of the most common Metalls found in these Northern Countries p. 14 Chap. 4. Wherein is shewed the operations for Tinns pa. 20 Chap. 5 Wherin is shewed the operations of Jron pa. 24 Chap. 6. Wherein is shewed the operations of Copper p. 26 Chap. 7. Wherein is shewed the operations of Silver pa. 30 Chap. 8. Wherein is shewed the operations of Gold and reall experiments whereby any man may presently trye whether any peece of Gold be true or counterfeit without defacing or altering the forme thereof pag. 33 Chap. 9. Wherein is shewed how true and perfit Gold may be made by Art with losse to the workman pag. 40 Chap. 10. Wherein is shewed the operations for some of the inferiour Metals pag. 44 Chap. 11. Wherein is shewed the wayes to finde out pit-coales Also the naturall cause of the generation of them by a plain demonstration p. 47 Chap. 12. Wherein is shewed a perfit way to trye what colour any Berry Leafe Flower Stalke Root Fruit Seed Barke or Wood will give Also a perfit way to make colours fixed which will not abide the ordinary way pag. 52. A Discovery of all sorts of Mines and Minerals CHAPTER I. Wherein is shewed by a plaine Demonstration the naturall cause of the generation and production of Mountaines and Mettals whereby the Seekers may ohtaine a good competent measure of knowledge to guide them where to seeke for the other Externall signes SALOMON sayth that Hope deferred breaks the heart but the desire obtayned is a Tree of Life If Hope onely deferred breake the Heart then Hope frustrated must needs breake it a great deale more To the end therefore that our Hope may not bee too frequently frustrated I will first declare the places where there is no probability to finde out Mettalls and afterwards I will shew where there is strong probability and then in the next Chapter I will shew how to goe about the worke to find out the strong signes which may rightly guide the seekers to obtaine their desire And first there is no probability that any Mettalls can bee generated neare unto the North and South poles of the Globe for those can by no meanes have any convenient Matrix for such a generation being by all probabilities nothing but two Islands of Ice for if they were any thing else the course of Nature must needs alter and change and runne presently out of order For as there is in the burning Zones a continuall exhalation of Water and rarifying of the same into Ayre so there must needes bee in the North and South a continuall condensation of Aire into Water to supply the same againe else the motion cannot bee perpetually circular Now whereas the North and South parts by reason of their coldnesse cannot suffer the said condensed Meteors to descend in forme of Water but in the forme of Snow Haile or some substance of like nature which there cannot melt in the superficies for want of heate it is very probable that the new Accretion this way produced doth presse downe still with its weight the said Ilands of Ice towards the Center where the centrall heate melteth it off continually by which meanes the sphericall forme of both Earth and Water are perpetually preserved And if any man bee of a contrary opinion I will not envie him but as for my owne part I will sell my Interest and hope of Mettalls in those places for a Farthing although I had a device that the cold there could not prevent my seeking for them Also in Vallies and plaine Champion Countries there is no hope to prosper in this designe for the wombe of such earth is not apt for such a generation the Reasons whereof will presently follow Now that wee have left us no other places to seeke in but the rocky Mountaines I will spend the rest of this Chapter in demonstrating the naturall cause of the generation of Rocks Mountaines and Metalls and so proceed forward And first I will set downe the Opinions of others with their Confutation and lastly the confirmation of mine owne Opinion by irrefragable Demonstration Some have thought that the mighty Creator made the vast deformed and

and so lay them downe againe CHAP. II. Wherein is shewed the waies to find out Pit-coales also the naturall cause of the generation of them by a plaine demonstration THough this Minerall be of small value yet if a good Mine thereof shall be discovered in some particular places of this land the benefit thereof will farre exceed the profit of any mettall Mine usually found in these Northerne Countries by reason that wood is so greatly decayed of late yeares that were it not for this helpe many people would be in danger to be starved The first thing therefore which I would have to be diligently observed is that this Mineral is usually found in ground that is proane to beare wood and thornes and not in the very fertile grounds nor yet in the extreame barren grounds but of an indifferent fertility and in grounds that are usually flower in their growth in the Spring time than the fertile Champion countries by a week or a fortninght Also the said grounds are proane to bring forth large Cattell and well horned but not to feed the said Cattell without a long time nor yet will they ever be very fat upon the same ground Also the springs issuing out of the said grounds are apt to colour the earth ruddy at their Orifice like unto the rust of Iron Also the said spring water being boiled as before is taugh doth usually yeeld a black residence Also if you burie a new bowle of pure white Wood in the said grounds from March till Midsummer with the mouth downeward it wil be coloured blackish with the subterraneal vapours Also I had a receipt given me for this purpose by one that for his great experience and excellent skill in naturall causes seemed to be one of Natures Darlings which because I have nor tryed for want of opportunity I will commend it as a very probable signe and give such Cautions that any man may be sure of it before he trye his fortunes by digging or boaring or any chargeable way And this was his direction about the middle of May when the subterraneall vapours are strong which may be discerned by the Firne which about that time will suddenly grow out of the earth in a night or two almost an handful in length then take a pure white peece of Tiffany and wet it in the dew of the grasse which is all of that springs growth and not soyled with cattell nor no other thing then wring out the dew from it and do so five or sixe times and if there be coales the Tiffany will be alittle blacked and made foule with the sooty vapours arising through the Coales and condensed amongst the dew Now to be sure not to be deceived do thus first trye it where there are coales and if ye find the signes above said yet trust not to the experiment till you have tried where there is no Coales in some other place wherein it behoveth you to trye in divers places till you find a place where the Tiffiany is not soyled at all then you may be sure that the experiment is true and unfailable I admonish him that shal trie with the Tiffany upon the dew to let his hands be washed before with sope hot water wiped with a pure white cloth til they wil not foule the cloth at al else if they spend their mony in digging find nothing they may thank their foule fingers for that misfortune As for the naturall cause of the generation of Coales this demonstration following doth make it manifest Take a peece of the blacke fat earth which is usually digged up in the west Countrey where there are such a multitude of Firre trees covered therewith and which the people use to cut in the forme of Bricks and to drye them so to burne them in stead of coales use this substance as you did the other earth in the beginning of the booke to find out the natural cause of rocks stones and mettalls and let it receive the vapours of the cumbustible substances and you shall find this fat earth hardned into a plaine coale even as you found the other Ieane earth hardned into a stone Whereby it appeareth that nature doth the same thing in the generation of coales under the ground by the indurating of a fat earth with the subterraneal vapours which are apt to work a various effect according to the substance which they meet withall Now wheras some of inquisitive dispositions wil desire to know the naturall cause of that fat earth generated in such subterraneall Cavernes let them be pleased to consider that such places in former times have bin the superficies of the earth and afterward have bin covered by the sea with other earth which may be demonstrated by two wayes first it is evident that the mines of Coales doe lye in some places higher and in other places lower lively resembling the superficies of the earth which is never directly equal but every where various Secondly every one may see in the west Country where such a multitude of Firre trees doe lie covered so deepe in the earth that the superficies of the earth was deeper then it is now in former ages when those trees were brought thither by the sea for it is evident that they never grew there first for that there groweth no Firre trees in that Countrey secondly for that they doe lie crosse and in such uncooth manner that no humane strength could ever imitate nor paralell by any device whatsoever Also they may see the power of the sea to alter the superficies of the earth by the multitude of earth there laid so many yards deepe upon the top of the trees Also they may see that the sea doth make the difference of the nature of earthes by its varirious motion as well as the unevennesse therof by hills and vallies for there they may see that some earth will burne and some will not burne being both sorts brought thither by the Sea as appeareth evidently by the former discourses Also the sea never resting but pepetually winning land in one place and losing in another doth shew what may be done in length of time by a continuall operation not subiect unto ceasing or intermission CHAP. 12. Wherein is shewed a perfect way to trye what colour any Berry Leafe Flower Stalke Root Fruit Seed Barke or Wood will give also a perfect way to make colours fixed which will not abide the ordinary way HEre I must confesse a manifest digression from my Subiect yet in regard of the great benefit which this experiment may bring to the Countrey out of the new Plantations and other places where it is very probable that many of these things be hidden and unknowne I wil crave pardon for that my intent was chiefely to prevent the losse of those things which may doe much good were it not through ignorance or negligence First then take halfe a pint of water and halfe a pint of float made as beneath 2. penny