Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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>Elsewhere every meer, whether a head-meer or other meer, comprises
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forty-two fathoms in width and as many in length.</
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<
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Bergmeíster
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gives the owner or company all of some
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locality defined by rivers or little valleys as boundaries. </
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of every such area of whatsoever shape it be, descend vertically into the
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earth; so the owner of that area has a right over that part of any
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vena
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dilatata
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which lies beneath the first one, just as the owner of the meer on
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a
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vena profunda
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has a right over so great a part of all other
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venae profundae
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as lies within the boundaries of his meer; for just as wherever one
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vena
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profunda
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is found, another is found not far away, so wherever one
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vena
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dílatata
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is found, others are found beneath it.</
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Bergmeíster
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divides
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vena cumulata
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areas in different ways,
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for in some localities the head-meer is composed of three measures, doubled
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in such a way that it is fourteen fathoms wide and twenty-one long; and
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every other meer consists of two measures doubled, and is square, that is,
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fourteen fathoms wide and as many long. </
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is composed of three single measures, and its width is seven fathoms and
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its length twenty-one, which two numbers multiplied together make one
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hundred and forty-seven square fathoms.</
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>SHAPE OF A HEAD-MEER.</
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head-meer is given the shape of a double measure, and every other meer that
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of a single measure. </
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a right over some complete specified locality bounded by little streams,
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valleys, or other limits. </
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venae cumulatae,
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as in
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the case of
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dílatatae,
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descend vertically into the depths of the earth, and
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each meer has the boundaries so determined as to prevent disputes arising
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between the owners of neighbouring mines.</
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>The boundary marks in use among miners formerly consisted only of
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stones, and from this their name was derived, for now the marks of a
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boundary are called “boundary stones.” To-day a row of posts, made either
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of oak or pine, and strengthened at the top with iron rings to prevent them
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from being damaged, is fixed beside the boundary stones to make them
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more conspicuous. </
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fields were marked by stones or posts, not only as written of in the book “
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De
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Limítíbus Agrorum,
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but also as testified to by the songs of the poets. </
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