Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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written in Book I. of my work “
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De Veteribus et Novís Metallís
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; or they
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may be exposed through the force of the wind, when it uproots and destroys
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the trees which have grown over the veins; or by the breaking away of the
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rocks; or by long-continued heavy rains tearing away the mountain; or by
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an earthquake; or by a lightning flash; or by a snowslide; or by the
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violence of the winds: “Of such a nature are the rocks hurled down from
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the mountains by the force of the winds aided by the ravages of time.” Or
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the plough may uncover the veins, for Justin relates in his history that
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nuggets of gold had been turned up in Galicia by the plough; or this may
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occur through a fire in the forest, as Diodorus Siculus tells us happened in the
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silver mines in Spain; and that saying of Posidonius is appropriate enough:
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“The earth violently moved by the fires consuming the forest sends forth new
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products, namely, gold and silver.”
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plained the same thing more fully in the following lines: “Copper and gold
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and iron were discovered, and at the same time weighty silver and the sub
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stance of lead, when fire had burned up vast forests on the great hills, either
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by a discharge of heaven's lightning, or else because, when men were waging
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war with one another, forest fires had carried fire among the enemy in order to
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strike terror to them, or because, attracted by the goodness of the soil, they
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wished to clear rich fields and bring the country into pasture, or else to destroy
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wild beasts and enrich themselves with the game; for hunting with pitfalls
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and with fire came into use before the practice of enclosing the wood with
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