This Addit, they either fetch athwart the whole Load, or right from the
braunch where they worke, as the next valley ministreth fittest
opportunitie, for soonest cutting into the Hil: and therfore a
Gentleman of good knowledges, deduceth this name of Addit, Ab aditu ad
aquas. Surely the practice is cunning in deuice, costly in charge,
and long in effecting: and yet, when all is done, many times the Load
falleth away, and they may sing with Augustus bird, Opera & impensa
periit. If you did see how aptly they cast the ground, for conueying
the water, by compassings and turnings, to shunne such hils & vallies
as let them, by their two much height or lownesse, you would wonder
how so great skill could couch in so base a Cabbin, as their
(otherwise) thicke clouded braines.
As much almost dooth it exceede credite, that the Tynne, for and in so
small quantitie, digged vp with so great toyle, and passing afterwards
thorow the managing of so many hands, ere it come to sale, should be
any way able to acquite the cost: for being once brought aboue ground
in the stone, it is first broken in peeces with hammers; and then
carryed, either in waynes, or on horses backs, to a stamping mill,
where three, and in some places sixe great logges of timber, bound at
the ends with yron, and lifted vp and downe by a wheele, driuen with
the water, doe breake it smaller.
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