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water_n	fish_n	great_a	sea_n	3,519	5	6.8793	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38593	Geologia Norvegica, or, A brief instructive remembrancer concerning that very great and spacious earthquake, which hapned [sic] almost quite through the south parts of Norvvay upon the 24th day of April, in the year 1657 also physical, historical, and theological grounds and reasons concerning the causes and significations of earthquakes / written in the Danish tongue by Michael Peterson Escholt ... ; and Englished by Daniel Collins.; Geologia Norvegica. English	Escholt, Michel Pedersøn, d. 1666.; Collins, Daniel, 17th cent.	1663 (1663)	Wing E3252; ESTC R15886	31,029	106

which is easily ground to pieces and is called in High-Dutch Kys then it becomes a bitter Succus which afterwards turns to Victril and Alumen liquidum that is Allom. Likewise where the subterraneous waters or liquid substances have their courses and passage thorough or into Gold and Silver Ore then it becomes Lithargyrium Aureum Argenteum that is Litharidge of Gold and Silver Nor must we think that all Minerals are produced in the earth after this manner now spoken of but some after this manner and some otherwise by the influence of the Planets and other occult natural causes which ought to put us in mind of the omnipotency of God who by nature worketh the rough and unshapen earth and earthish liquid substances into such several very necessary and precious Minerals and Mettals for the great benefit and good of Mankind And it is also found by experience that many Minerals are so perfectly decocted and wrought below in the earth that they do afterwards spring up of themselves thorough the Clefts and Cranies of the Rocks like a pot that seeths and runs over As touching Mettals they are by nature wrought and produced below in the earth after divers secret and incomprehensible ways and manners yea even amongst and within the hard stones and mighty mountainous Rocks by which in like manner we have cause given to consider the omnipotency and bounty of God whereby he in so wonderful and inconceivable a manner doth change earth and stone into Gold Silver Iron Copper Tinn Lead and other very necessary Mettals for the profit and benefit of man And as the Fish is never so deep in the main Sea and other great waters streams but it is brought up for the food and sustentation of man in like manner is Gold Silver Iron Brass Tinn Lead c. never so deep below in the earth nor so hard fastned in and between the hard rocks under it but that by the Almighty power of God and the Art and Labour of those that work in the Mines it is brought up to light for the use and great benefit of Man Concerning which Job in his 28 chap. 1 2 verses writes thus The Silver hath its secret passage and the Gold its place Iron is taken out of the earth and Stone is melted into Copper Such favour hath the goodness and omnipotency of God shewed now in these last times of the world unto this Land and Kingdom of Norway especially since the year 1623. when that rich and famous Silver Mine in Sanswerd and since that time after time the rich Copper-Mine in Ewster-dale and Gulbrands-dale as well as the excellent Iron-Mine in Hedemarken and other places were found out improved to the great and profitable advancement of Trade And here is especially to be noted that Mettals are not discovered and brought to light and use in all places alike soone but some in one seculo or century of years and some in another After two three or more hundred years time and the reason is because they are not ripe all alike soone or perfectly wrought and prepared as the fruits of Trees or Herbs of the field are some of them sooner and some later ripe and that because some Metals are so deep below in the earth that they cannot so soon grow up and show themselves above or upon the earth nor can be perfectly wrought and prepared so soon as those Metals that are placed higher up in the earth and it is also partly because many Countreys and places that are full of Ore and metallish substances do yet lie so far from the Suns and Planets Courses which principally works and prepares them yea even in the deepest and innermost places of the earth that they cannot come so soon to maturity or be discovered and brought to use so soon as those Mines that are in the Southern Countreys either neerer or under the Suns and Planets courses And hence it is that the Mines in these Northern Countreys especially here in Norway and Sweden whose Southermost borders lie not above 34. degrees from the Artick or North-pole but the Northermost reaches up to 71. degrees of North Latitude lying far from the Sun and the other Planets courses and operations have not so soon come to maturity as those Mines in the South countreys and also in the East and West Indies which lye but 30 or 40 degrees from the Equinoctial on both sides from whence great quantities of Gold and Silver hath been and is now yearly brought into these Norther Countreys For the heat of the Sun and the power of the Planets by their presence there have a far greater force and influence in their operation then they have here with us where they never come so neer and besides their power and influence is much obstructed by that natural frost and cold which is here so neer under the Pole It is therefore well worth the notice that when any Ore-Mine is found here in Norway as happens often and in many places which upon tryal is found to yield good and fine Metal or Ore though not so rich as to defray all charges that therefore such Mines ought not to be wholly neglected and slighted but diligently registred and taken notice of for the benefit of our posterity because the Ore sheweth that there is good and fine Metal preparing in that Mine and possibly being deeper searcht into would be found rich enough but if it should not then be able to bear the charges it is because the Metal so found is not yet ripe enough and come to perfect maturity which in time may be wherein Nature and the Planets may do very much in halfe a hundred or a hundred years so that what is not yet ripe enough and come to full perfection in our time may be more ripe and come to better maturity in processe of the time of our posterity to the great profit benefit and advantage of these Kingdoms hereafter Now when Metals are thoroughly prepared and come to their maturity and perfection under the earth then they do discover themselves above the earth like as the fruits of trees when they are ripe enough fall down of themselves shewing thereby that they are now ripe or fit to be digged up and used And it is related amongst us that the rich Silver-Mine in Sanswerd by Dram did discover it selfe by shewing and putting forth its Ore through the cracks and clefts of the stones in that rocky Mountain in the year 1623. And it happens often that when the Countrey people here do burn the wood off from such great places where they intend to sow Corn that the force and vehemence of the fire reaches into the Rocks and makes them glowing hot and then the melted Ore or Metal runs out of their clefts and cracks whereby they are often discover'd and in time improved It is also to be admired how wonderfully nature doth prepare and produce several sorts of Ore in strange forms and

shapes such as are whole pieces of pure Silver or Copper in the shapes of Men Women Horses Fowls Fishes Dragons Trees and the like which have been really found both in the Silver and the Copper-Mines here in Norway and are safely reserved by such as are partners in the Mines as miracles of nature It is likewise certain that there are divers Spirits found in many of the Ore Mines amongst which some do the workmen no harm at all but otherwise wander up and down below in the Mines and seem to imitate the Labourers in the Mine in doing all kind of work after an Apish Antick fashion some seem to hew the Ore loose some to fill that which is hewen into tubs and to wind it up some seem to hasten the rest to follow their work and yet they do nothing at all but only mock the Labourers in the Mines and these are most frequently seen in those Mines where much Ore is shortly after found But some of these Spirits are so dangerous and pernitious in some places that they do destroy and kill the Laborers in the Mines infesting and expelling them so that they are forced wholly to give over and forsake the Mines and repair to other places as it hapned at Anneberg in Elsatz in Germany at a M●ne-pit then called Corona Rosacea or Rosen Crown And here is to be observed that nature doth often yea for the most part mix more sorts then one together as Gold Silver and Copper as also Silver Copper Tinn and Lead one with another from whence this word Metal derives its name from the Greek quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the one mixt with the other And moreover besides this Nature doth sometimes work and produce Metals below in the earth that are found to be hard tight and solid as if they had been cast or wrought with the hammer but sometimes and most commonly it is found growing in and mixed with stone so that the Ory stones must be beaten with pestles as in a morter and then the Ore-power melted in Furnaces and afterwards refined from the drosse before any necessary thing can be made of it And this may suffice to be spoken concerning several Minerals and Metals and how wonderfully they may be wrought and changed within and under the earth and do help to the production of great Earthquakes CHAP. IV. Concerning Air and Wind that is inclosed in the Earth and how it doth occasion great and terrible Earthquakes IT is an universal Axiome and Physical rule non datur vacuum in rerum natura that is there is nothing found empty in Nature whence it follows that all things over or under the earth must of necessity be full or filled with something especially with one or more of the four Elements which be Fire Air Earth and Water and where none of the visible Elements are there the Air is present being a thin subtile and invisible body that fils up all places and things every where which seem to our eies to be empty the which we may easily try and experiment by putting a hollow Reed Straw or Feather into Wine Beer Water or other liquid stuff yea though it were Sand or loose Earth and afterwards strongly sucking out and drawing to us the Air that is in the hollow reed or straw we do presently see that before the reed or straw will be empty the heavy stuff that is below will come up into and fill the hollow place in it until it can recover its lost air again the same may be perceived when one drinks Tobacco for when the Air is suckt out of the pipe into the mouth then before the hollow of the pipe will be empty the smoak is forced as it were by the power of nature to forsake the fire that is in the tobacco to fill up the hollowness of the pipe least it should be empty Now the earth within is not generally close and tight but cleft and parted one piece from another in many places And there are also many Rocks and great stones below in it that have their Clefts Cracks and Cranies which are wide and large and as it were hollow and empty besides the earth in many places is sunk down from the Corners Angles and uneveness of those Rocks and Stones which makes many great hollow and as it were empty places within the earth And besides this the earth is on all sides environed with water and is with several Seas and running streams both salt and fresh enterlac't and filled as the body is with veins and is also with great and long Rains often wet and moistned by which means she is soakt thorough with water and the same water in time gets into those hollow places below in the earth but being hindred in its course to such places doth again spring up in certain places of the earth as may by several Springs be perceived and observed And besides all this there must needs be a wonderful great water in the innermost parts of the earth which Moses that man of God the writer of the creation of the worlds foundation calls the fountains of the great deep Gen. 7. chap. 11. ver and 8. chap. 2. ver which springs up in many places so abundantly both hot and cold that it makes great and rapid streams above the earth Now where such great waters under the earth cannot break forward and force themselves thorough to those hollow places in the earth there the Air being a more thin and subtile body than the water forceth it selfe through and fils them For as the moisture humours and spirits do often force themselves through the Pores of a mans warm body or a horse that sweats through whose thick hide the humours and moisture so pierces that the Horse seems to smoak again with reek In like manner the Air goes about to and fro below in the earth seeking to fill those hollow and empty places according to the appointment of nature which suffers nothing to be empty as is before mentioned Now when such hollow places are filled with subterraneous water or with other stuff then is the inclosed Air expelled and forced thence comming up out of those holes and appearing above the earth as a thick fogg mist or smoak which in Latine is called halitus exhalationes evaporationes but we here in Norway call it a mist whereof some are thicker then others and of different colours according as the said Air so arising and expelled hath contracted its thickness and colour from that moisture below in the earth with which it was mixed and inclosed And then if the earth be so close Tight and solid that the Air cannot so suddainly get passage to depart away it breaks out by force and when this conflict and breach betwixt the subterraneous Air and Water happens then the earth as the seat of this warr must certainly quake tremble shake and be moved and this is called Terrae motus that is an Earthquake whereof the following