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were employed in them, and the produce was sogreat as to assist Edward the Third to carry onthe war with France l .”
One Bulmar, an Englishman, worked the goldmines in Scotland in the reign of Queen Eliza-beth. In that time three hundred men wereemployed near Elvansfoot, at a place still calledthe Gold-Scour, who, in the course of a fewsummers, are said to have collected equal to thevalue of £100,000 2 : they were resumed a fewyears ago under the superintendence of themanager of the lead mines at Wanlochhead;but the price of labour was too high to inducethe continuance of the workings 3 .
Fabricius, professor of mineralogy in the uni-versity of Kiel in Holstein, visited Englandabout the year 1740, chiefly with a view to ex-amine the state of the mines. He says in hiswork on the subject 4 , that in the tenth year ofQueen Elizabeth, miners were sent from Ger-many to the company of mines royal establishedto work the mines of silver in Cardiganshire ,and those in the county of Tipperary in Ireland .As far as relates to gold and silver, his informa-