mountaine there is heate continually alike, the nature whereof is alwaies to aſcend, and in the aſcention it alwayes drieth vp, and coagulateth the thicker or groſſer water hidden in the belly, or veines of the earth, or mountaine, into Argent-uiue. And if the minerall fatnes of the ſame place ariſing out of the earth, be gathered warme togither in the veines of the earth, it runneth through the mountain, & becommeth Sulphur. And as a man may ſee in the foreſaide veines of that place, that Sulphur engendred of the fatneſſe of the earth (as is before touched) meeteth with the Argent-uiue (as it is alſo written) in the veines of the earth, and begetteth the thickneſſe of the minerall water. There, through the continual equal heate in the mountaine, in long proceſſe of time diuerse mettals are engendreds, accoridng to the diuerſitie of the place. And in theſe Minerall places, you ſhall finde a continuall heate. For this cauſe wee are of right to note, that the externall minerall mountaine is euerie where ſhut vp within it ſelfe, and ſtonie; for if the heate might iſſue out, there ſhould neuer be engendred any mettall. If therefore wee intend to immitate nature, we muſt needes haue ſuch a furnace like vnto the Mountaines, not in greatneſſe, but in continual heate, ſo that the fire put in, when it aſcendeth, may finde no vent: but that the heat may beat vpon the veſſell being cloſe ſhutte, containing in it the matter of the ſtone: which veſſell muſt be round, with a ſmall necke, made of glaſſe or ſome earth, repreſenting the nature of cloſe knitting togither of glaſſe: the
