The Metallic Orchard

[Stol]len, and veins where ores are mined, and is willing to wait for the right time, he will find that GOD and Nature allow the ores, once they have stood long enough on their stem original: Stamme; here referring to the main "trunk" or source of the ore vein from which minerals grow, to enter into decay once more; for there he will find large specimens original: Stuffen; a mining term for mineral samples or hand-sized pieces of ore of exhaled or weathered ore, called Giffeler an archaic mining term for crumbly, decomposed mineral matter or druses crystalline cavities or geode-like structures; from these the spirit of life has escaped as a stinking mist, smoke, vapor original: Schwaden; refers to hazardous gases or damp found in mines, and steam, and has moved to another place; it has left its sulfur likely referring to the alchemical principle of Sulfur, the combustible or "soul" element of the metal behind in those druses; whoever cannot or will not believe this can travel down into the ore mines themselves, and he will find that everything behaves exactly so.

The poisonous vapors, however, or the foul air original: böse Wetter; literally "bad weather," the historical term for dangerous mine gases like carbon dioxide or "choke damp", when they leave their body, either cling to the sides of the galleries, shafts, or veins as a fatty substance, or settle upon the groundwater, or even escape to the surface, where they are drawn up by the air and applied original: adhibiret, from the Latin adhibere; used or incorporated to other things.