 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 614 pages
...subterraneous1 city with extensive streets, buildings, &.c. One of the cavenis, called the great hall, contains lustres hanging from the roof, and all the curiosities, crystals, petrifactions, &c., which liiive been found here. Seven hundred thousand quintals are annually raised, which, with two hundred... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 570 pages
...subterraneous city with extensive streets, buildings, &c. One of the caverns, called the great hall, contains lustres hanging from the roof, and all the...crystals, petrifactions, &c., which have been found here. Seven hundred thousand quintals are annually raised, which, with two hundred thousand quintals... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...subterraneous city with extensive streets, buildings, &c. One of the caverns, called the great Лай, contains lustres hanging from the roof, and all the...crystals, petrifactions, &c., which have been found here. Seven hundred thousand quintals are annually raised, which, with two hundred thousand quintals... | |
 | Johann Georg Heck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 814 pages
...divided into three bands, which relieve each other alternately, spending eight hours of the twenty-four in the mines and the balance above-ground with their...Walachia, having an extent of upwards of 500 miles. VIII. METALLUKGY. Metallurgy, equally with other branches of art, requires its own peculiar implements and... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 544 pages
...subterraneous city with extensive streets, buildings, &c. One of the caverns, called the great hall, contains lustres hanging from the roof, and all the...crystals, petrifactions, &c., which have been found here. Seven hundred thousand quintals are annually raised, which, with two hundred thousand quintals... | |
 | 1856 - 176 pages
...divided into three bands, which relieve each other alternately, spending eight hours of the twenty-four in the mines and the balance above-ground with their...Walachia, having an extent of upwards of 500 miles. VIII. METALLUKGY. Metallurgy, equally with other branches of art, requires its own peculiar implements and... | |
 | Johann Georg Heck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 804 pages
...is cut, and they are sent up to the surface completed. 710 The salt mines at Wieliczka (pi. 26, fig. 1), in Galicia, are justly considered one of the wonders...Walachia, having an extent of upwards of 500 miles. VIII. METALLUKGY. Metallurgy, equally with other branches of art, requires its own peculiar implements and... | |
 | Meteorology - 1895 - 398 pages
...feet is St. Anthony's chapel, hewn out of the salt rock. One of the caverns, called the great hall, contains lustres hanging from the roof, and all the...crystals, petrifactions, &c., which have been found in the mines. It is of amazing beauty, as the salt, according to its various qualities, is of different colours,... | |
 | Meteorology - 1895 - 470 pages
...feet is St. Anthony's chapel, hewn out of the salt rock. One of the caverns, called the f/rcal hall, contains lustres hanging from the roof, and all the...crystals, petrifactions, &c., which have been found in th<mines. It is of amazing beauty, as the salt, according to its various qualities, is of different... | |
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The workmen are divided into three bands, which relieve each other alternately, spending eight hours of the twenty-four in the mines and the balance above-ground with their families. In 1570 and also in 1614 the mine suffered very much from fire, and... 