[891] A similar method of washing auriferous earth or sand in the mines, is still employed in some cases.
[892] “The bringing of water into one channel.”
[893] Or as Holland quaintly renders it, “Some flying spirit or winged devill of the air.”
[894] Magnesian carbonate of lime, or dolomite, Ajasson thinks.
[895] From the Greek, ἀγωγὴ.
[896] It does not appear to have been identified; and it can hardly be the same as the Ulex Europæus of modern Natural History, our Furze or Gorse.
[897] That of sinking shafts, described already in this Chapter.
[898] All these names, no doubt, are of Spanish origin, although Salmasius would assign them a Greek one.
[899] In B. iii. c. 24.
[900] See B. iii. c. 21.