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A28496	Irelands naturall history being a true and ample description of its situation, greatness, shape, and nature, of its hills, woods, heaths, bogs, of its fruitfull parts, and profitable grounds : with the severall ways of manuring and improving the same : with its heads or promontories, harbours, roads, and bays, of its springs, and fountains, brooks, rivers, loghs, of its metalls, mineralls, free-stone, marble, sea-coal, turf, and other things that are taken out of the ground : and lastly of the nature and temperature of its air and season, and what diseases it is free from or subject unto : conducing to the advancement of navigation, husbandry, and other profitable arts and professions / written by Gerald Boate ; and now published by Samuell Hartlib for the common good of Ireland and more especially for the benefit of the adventurers and planters therein.	Boate, Gerard, 1604-1650.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B3373; ESTC R27215	105,129	208

profit to the Farmer Besides the Lead and Silver the Mine produced also some Quicksilver but not any Alome Vitriol or Antimony that I could hear of Sect. 3. Profits of this Mine It hach been destroyed by the Irish Rebels The silver of this Mine was very fine so as the Farmers sold it at Dublin for five shillings two pence sterling the ounce as for the Lead that they sold on the place for eleven pounds sterling the Tun and for twelve pounds at the city of Limmerick The King had the sixt part of the silver for his share and the tenth part of the Lead the rest remaining to the farmers whose clear profit was estimated to be worth two thousand pounds sterling yearly All the Mil● Melting-houses Refining-houses and other necessary work-houses stood within one quarter of a mile at the furthest from the place where the Mine was digged every one of them having been very conveniently and sufficiently built and accommodated by the Officers and substitutes of Sir William Russell Sir Basill Brook and Sir George Hamilton which three persons successively had this Mine in farm from the King but in the beginning of this present Rebellion all this hath been destroyed by the Irish under the conduct of Hugh O-kennedy brother of Iohn Mac-Dermot O-kennedy on whose lands the Mine was situated which Rebels not content to lay wast the Mine and to demolish all the works thereunto belonging did accompany this their barbarousness with bloody cruelty against the poor workmen such as were imployed about the melting and refining of the Oar and in all offices thereunto belonging the which some of them being English and the rest Dutch because the Irish having no skill at all in any of those things had never been imployed in this Mine otherwise than to digg it and to doe other labours were all put to the sword by them except a very few who by flight escaped their hands Sect. 4. This Mine free from deadly vapours the which otherwise in Ireland are bred within the Earth as well as in other C●untries as is instanced in a very remarkable History I have not heard that any of the Miners hath been stifled in this Mine a thing ordinary enough in other countries the reason whereof I conceive to be because the work was done in wide and open pits wherein the like noxious vapours can neither be so easily engendred and when they arise find a free passage into the open air to the contrary of those close and narrow vaults usuall in the most part of other Mines For else that the Earth of Ireland is subject as well as that of other countries to breed dangerous damps within her self is undoubted as evidently it appeared in the year sixteen hundred thirty seven by this following accident A Maulter living in the suburbs of Dublin in St Francis-street caused a Well to be digged three yards deep which yeelding but little water and that not very sweet nor clear resolved to have it made deeper and injoyned a servant of his to work at it at spare times which he doing and having digged a yard and half lower the water of it begun the 24 of August to bubble up in a strange manner making great noise which having continued two dayes without any notable increase hardly comming half-way the knees he went down again into the Well to digge there according to his custome But having wrought but a little while and being taken with a sudden giddiness in his head and faintness at his heart made hast to get out and being revived returned to fetch away his spade and other instruments but comming to the bottom he fell into a deadly sown which being s●en by those that were present one of them went down to help him up unto whom the same accident happened All the spectators being greatly astonished and their tumult having drawn-on a great concourse of people the place were the Well was being an open yard looking into the main street a certaine man newly come to town and casually passing by that way not affrighted by the example of those two had the courage to goe down to fetch the former out but with as ill success as they themselves The wonder and amazement being hereby increased among the people there was nevertheless a Butcher a bold robustuous man who having drunk somewhat liberally would notwithstanding these sad accidents goe in which at the first not being suffered and he continuing in his resolution was at last permitted on condition that he let a strong cord be tyed about his wast to pull him out if he found himself ill the which to signifie he was to hold up his right hand But being come to the bottome and suddenly taken with a deadly faintness that he had neither time nor power to give the appointed sign falling from the ladder and being haled out with all possible speed found to be in a deep trance but with perfect signes of life wherefore being carried to his own house put into his bed and care taken of him it was nevertheless 24 houres before he came to himself The dead bodies being drawn out of the Well it was filled with earth by order of the Magistrat of the said City Sect. 5. Relation of an accident like the former happened at London The like accidents have at severall times been seen in other Countries whereof wee could allege many instances but passing by all other we shall make mention of one lately befaln here at London Without Aldesgate there is a little court called Carpenters-yard in the midst of which there stood a Pump the water whereof not being good for to dress meat was used by the neighbours only for the washing and cleaning of their houses and the like But in length of time being grown so thick and muddy that no use could be made out it was resolved that the Well whereout the Pump drew its water should be made clean to which purpose the Pump being taken down in the latter end of Iuly anno sixteen hundred fourtie four a laborer was let down with a cord into the Well being little and narrow to take out the mud by pailes full which assoon as he came to the bottome presently fell stark dead Those that had let him down seeing this and suspecting nothing else but that a suddain faintness had overcome him let down another to see what he ayled and to bring him out But he sped no better than the first which when the people perceived no more went into the Well untill three or four houres after in which middle-space of time a great Iron pan or plate heaped up with burning charcoal had been let down into the Well and severall times as the fire did slaken renewed that through the heat thereof that mortiferous vapour might bee overcome and dispersed the which accordingly fell out so that the person aferwards went down to fetch away the dead bodies got no hurt at all A great covered or vaulted gutter whereby