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Rh mountaine there is heate continually alike, the nature whereof is alwaies to acend, and in the acention it alwayes drieth vp, and coagulateth the thicker or groer water hidden in the belly, or veines of the earth, or mountaine, into Argent-uiue. And if the minerall fatnes of the ame place ariing 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 ee in the foreaide veines of that place, that Sulphur engendred of the fatnee of the earth (as is before touched) meeteth with the Argent-uiue (as it is alo written) in the veines of the earth, and begetteth the thicknee of the minerall water. There, through the continual equal heate in the mountaine, in long procee of time diuerse mettals are engendreds, accoridng to the diueritie of the place. And in thee Minerall places, you hall finde a continuall heate. For this caue wee are of right to note, that the externall minerall mountaine is euerie where hut vp within it elfe, and tonie; for if the heate might iue out, there hould neuer be engendred any mettall. If therefore wee intend to immitate nature, we mut needes haue uch a furnace like vnto the Mountaines, not in greatnee, but in continual heate, o that the fire put in, when it acendeth, may finde no vent: but that the heat may beat vpon the veell being cloe hutte, containing in it the matter of the tone: which veell mut be round, with a mall necke, made of glae or ome earth, repreenting the nature of cloe knitting togither of glae: the Rh