Agricola, Georgius, De re metallica, 1912/1950

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              BOOK VI.
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              <s>Digging of veins I have written of, and the timbering
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              of shafts, tunnels, drifts, and other excavations,
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              and the art of surveying. </s>
              <s>I will now speak first of
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              all, of the iron tools with which veins and rocks are
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              broken, then of the buckets into which the lumps
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              of earth, rock, metal, and other excavated materials
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              are thrown, in order that they may be drawn, con­
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              veyed, or carried out. </s>
              <s>Also, I will speak of the
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              water vessels and drains, then of the machines of
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              different kinds,
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              and lastly of the maladies of miners. </s>
              <s>And while all these
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              matters are being described accurately, many methods of work will be
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              <s>There are certain iron tools which the miners designate by names of their
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              own, and besides these, there are wedges, iron blocks, iron plates, hammers,
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              crowbars, pikes, picks, hoes, and shovels. </s>
              <s>Of those which are especially
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              referred to as “iron tools” there are four varieties, which are different
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              from one another in length or thickness, but not in shape, for the
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              upper end of all of them is broad and square, so that it can be struck by the </s>
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