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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    not have produced by themfelves. To verify thefe af- fertions, I refer the intelligent reader to a tabellary abftradl of fome mines defcribed in this publication, and beg leave to obferve, that, by fimilar abftradls of all the good mineralogical and crological accounts which are come to my hands, 1 am enabled to give in a new edition of my Syftem of the Earth, fomething more fatisfablory about crology and the metallic mines in general than hitherto has been given to the pub¬ lic. They are the work of many years, and of great - labour; and with the various improvements of the above Syftem, not undeferving that generous fupport and encouragement which, though a foreigner, I make bold to expect from unprejudiced friends of fcience, and from thofe gentlemen, whofe inter eft and bufinefs it is to fee fomewhat clear under their own ground, and to prevent thofe many impofitions and difappointments, to which adventurous, unprinci¬ pled miners are fubjeol. I. This Syftem of the Earth and Mountains is to appear in two volumes in 410. and to contain II. An ex a dl deferuption of the fur face of the earth and its ftrata *, with an appendix of my own, and va¬ rious of the beft crological obfer vat ions reduced into tabellary forms. III. Hif-