Austria-Hungary - with excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest - handbook for travellers (1911) (14776010781)

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Title: Austria-Hungary : with excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest : handbook for travellers
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Baedeker, Karl
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York C. Scribner
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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a (1085 ft.; Schwarzer Adder), a town of 6090 inhab.,finely situated on the Jdriza. The quicksilver-mines, discovered in1497, have been worked by government since 1580 (ticket of admissionfrom the manager, 2 K 40 h or 3 K; no admission on Sun.). The otc,containing on an average 6 per cent of quicksilver, occurs chiefly in theform of cinnabar. It is calcined at the foundries on the right bank ofthe Idriza, 1/2 M- to the N.E. of Idria, and the fumes of quicksilverthen given off are collected in cooling apparatus. The fluid metal ispoured into iron flasks or packed in sheepskin bags. The annual yieldis 570 tons of quicksilver, of which about 40 tons are converted intopigment on the spot. The miners are about 1200 in number; the womenemploy themselves in lace-making. The chateau of Geioerkenegg, builtin 1527 and now the mine-office, and the theatre, built under MariaTheresa, should be noticed. 169 M. Bakek, about 4 M. to the S.E. of which is the Zirk-nitzer-See, the level of which varies.
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