[10] There are, that leauing these trades of new searching, doe take in
hand such old Stream and Loadworks, as by the former aduenturers haue
beene giuen ouer, and oftentimes they find good store of Tynne, both in
the rubble cast vp before, as also in veines which the first workmen
followed not. From hence there groweth a diuersitie in opinion,
amongst such Gentlemen, as by, iudgement and experience, can looke into
these matters; some of them supposing that the Tynne groweth; and
others, that it onely separateth from the consumed offall. But
whosoeuer readeth that which Francis Leandro hath written touching the
yron mynerals, in the Ile of Elba, will cleaue perhaps to a third
conceite: for hee auoucheth, that the trenches, out of which the Owre
there is digged, within twentie or thirtie yeeres, become alike ful
againe of the same mettall, as at first, & he confirmeth it by sutable
examples, borrowed from Clearchus, of Marble, in Paros Iland, and of
Salt, in India, deducing thence this reason, that the ayre and water
replenishiing the voide roome, through the power of the vniuersall
agent, and some peculiar celestiall influence, are turned into the
selfe substance; and so by consequence, neither the Owre groweth, nor
the earth consumeth away: and this opinion, Munster in his
Cosmographie, doth seeme to vnderprop, affirming, that neere the Citie
of Apolonia in Dalmatia, the veines whence Brasse is digged, are filled
in like maner. So doth he report, that neere Ptolomais, there lieth a
round valley, out of which glassie Sand being taken, the winds fill the
pit againe, from the upper part of the adioyning mountaines; which
matter is conuerted into the former substance and that euen Mettals
throwne Into this place, doe vndergoe the like Metamorphosis.

The colour both of the Shoad and Load, resembleth his bed, as the Sea
sand doth the Cliffes, and is so diuersified to reddish, blackish,
duskie, and such other earthy colours.