Travels through the Bannat of Temeswar, Transylvania, and Hungary, in the year 1770. Described in a series of letters ... on the mines and mountains of these different countries ... / To which is added, John James Ferber's mineralogical history of Bohemia. Translated from the German ... by R.E. Raspe.

  • Born, Ignaz, Edler von, 1742-1791
Date:
1777
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Credit: Travels through the Bannat of Temeswar, Transylvania, and Hungary, in the year 1770. Described in a series of letters ... on the mines and mountains of these different countries ... / To which is added, John James Ferber's mineralogical history of Bohemia. Translated from the German ... by R.E. Raspe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    variety of caufes and accidents, as may be •proved even by hiflory. Nor are even the volcanic moun¬ tains and ftrata produced by and under the fame clrcumflances, as fuffciently is hinted by me in the preface to Ferbeds Letters, and in my account of the German volcanoes. Of courfe they muß all of them, for chemical and hiftorical reafons, offer a variety of clrcumflances in the form, mixture, fubftance cf their pafte and rocks, /A fituation of their fir at a, in the nature and direkt ion of their veins, the nature and mixture of the par aß tic al rocks, which are Produced in their veins and caverns. j. cihe miners in Germany, whofe ideas have been generally confined to their main objetl, to /£# nature of the mountains, which they worked, have, inftead of the above divifion of the mountains, divided them into flat 70/0 gang mountains. (Flots, and gang-geburge.) By the former they undeffland ftratified modern mountains, which generally fur round the higher and more ancient ones, worked not for their veins, but for the contents of their fir at a, which are lefs dipping, horizontal, than thofe in the higher mountains. the fiate copper-works in Mans- fields the coal mines in general, «wary /V0» mines. By gang-mountains, they underfiand higher metal¬ lic mountains, which are working for their veins or ftocks, confift in Germany, Bohemia, Hun- gary.