[882] “Channel-gold” or “trench-gold.”
[883] Becoming volatilized, and attaching itself in crystals to the side of the chimney.
[884] Or “sweat.” This “sweat” or “silver” would in reality be a general name for all the minerals that were volatilized by the heat of the furnace; while under the name of “scoria ” would be comprised pyrites, quartz, petrosilex, and other similar substances.
[885] The cupel or crucible is still known in Spain by the name of tasco.
[886] Who were said to have heaped one mountain on another in their war with the gods.
[887] Deep mines in Spain are still called arrugia, a term also used to signify gold beneath the surface. According to Grimm, arruzi was the ancient High German name for iron.
[888] See B. xxiii. c. 27.
[889] The breaking-machines, used for crushing the silex.
[890] “Cædunt” is certainly a preferable reading to “cadunt,” though the latter is given by the Bamberg MS.