together and makes a violent heate and fierce flame, the mettle by y^e fire being separated from y^e Coale and its own Drosse, being heavy falls down to a trench made to receive it at y^e furnace hole below. This Liquid mettle I saw them shovel up w^{th} an jron shovel and soe pour it into molds in w^{ch} it Cooles and soe they take it thence in sort of wedges or piggs I think they Call them, its a fine mettle in its first melting—Looks Like silver—I had a piece poured out and made Cold for to take w^{th} me. Y^e oare as its just dug Lookes Like y^e thunderstones, a greenish hue full of pendust this seemes to Containe its full description, y^e shineing part is white. I went a mile farther on y^e hills and soe Came where they were digging in the tinn mines, there was at Least 20 mines all in sight w^{ch} employs a Great many people at work almost night and day, but Constantly all and Every day jncluding the Lords day w^{ch} they are forced to prevent their mines being overflowed w^{th} water. More than 1000 men are taken up about them, few mines but had then almost 20 men and boys attending it either down in y^e mines digging and Carrying y^e oare to the Little Bucket w^{ch} Conveys it up, or Else others are Draineing the water and Looking to y^e Engines y^t are draineing it, and those above are attending y^e drawing up the oare in a sort of windlass as is to a Well. Two men keeps turning bringing up one and Letting down another, they are much Like the Leather Buckets they use in London to put out fire, w^{ch} hang up in Churches and Great mens halls. They have a Great Labour and Great expence to draine the mines of the water w^{th} mills that horses turn, and now they have y^e mills or water Engines that are turned by the water w^{ch} is Convey’d on frames of timber and truncks to hold y^e water, w^{ch} falls down on y^e wheeles as an over shott mill, and these are y^e sort that turns y^e water into y^e severall towns I have seen about London, Darby and Exeter and many places more. They do five tymes more good than the mills they use to turn w^{th} horses, but then they are much more Chargeable. Those mines do require a great deale of timber to support them and to make all those engines and mills, w^{ch} makes fewell very scarce here; they burn mostly turffs w^{ch} is an unpleasant smell, it makes one smell as if smoaked Like Bacon. This ore as said is made fine powder in a Stamping Mill w^{ch} is Like y^e paper mills, only these are pounded drye and noe water Let into them as is to y^e Raggs, to work them into a paste. Ye mills are all turned w^{th} a Little Streame or Channell of water you may step over, jndeed they have noe other mills but such in all the Country; I saw not a windmill all over Cornwall or Devonshire tho’ they have wind and hills Enough, and it may be its too Bleake for them. In the tinn mines there is stone Dug out and a sort of spar something Like what I have seen in the Lead mines at