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VIII. The prefediirate of Altenberg, containing in it two immediate,
five mediate vaflals, and twelve villages. In this prefe6lurate is
1. Altenbergy a little open free mine-town, under immediate vaffalage,
and having both feat and voice at the Land-Diets. This place lies near
the fource of the two little rivers JVaJeritz. It contains in it hardly two
hundred houfes, of which almoft one third lie towards the bottom, but
the reft ftand on an eminence, and are called the New io"j}v. The occafion
of building this place was owing to the rich tin-mine here, which
was difcovered in 1458. The tin which this vein yields is reckoned the
beft next to that of the Englijh and Bohemian. The mine-office here has
the infpedion of this mine-work. At this place alfo has been difcovered a
cement-fpring. Great quantities of lace too are wove here. In 1531 almoft
the whole town was burnt down. In 1576 it fuffered a fecond time
by a great fire. In 1639 it was fet on fire by the Swedes, and in 1675 the
greateft part of it was for the fourth time burnt down.
2. Ghfzhutte, a fmall town, fcated in the midft of mountains and eminences,
on the river Moglitz, and taking its name from the rich glafs-ore
which was formerly dug there. This place is under mediate vaflalage, but
enjoys both the upper and hereditary jurifdiclion, and has alfo both feat
and voice at the Land-Diets, being likewife together with Berg-GufohuM,
the feat of a mine-office. The filver, tin, and iron mines here were formerly
more profitable than at prefent. But the ßlver-ore as it cannot
be worked at this place, is fent to Freyherg to be tried.
3. Old-Geyfzing, a fmall town under mediate vafiTalage, and having both
feat and voice at the Land-Diets, This place is feparated by the rivulet
of Geyfzirig from Ncw-Geyfzing in the prefedlurate of Pima. The miners
here work partly at the Neicfange, and partly alfo and chiefly at the Zifin-
•walde.
In Gey/h'ngs ground are between fix and feven mills, together with
three fmelting-huts.
4. St. Georgenfeld, a mine-town, which in the year 1671 was erefted in
the outmoft borders oi Bohemia, and in 1728 was ftill further enlarged by
the expuifion of the Proteftant inhabitants out of their {hares in the Zimi-
-ii-alde by their Bohemian Lords of the Roman-c^.'&ioXxc perfuafion. It conftitutes
properly one fifth part of the mine-town of Zimiwald.
5. Barenjeh, an eledforal foreft and hunting feat, lying on the Weiffcritz.
6. Scbellerau, or Neudorf, a parochial-village.
IX. The prefedurate of Lautekstein, containing in it ten immediate,
two mediate vaflfals, and twenty-five villages, and confifting of the lower
part, which formerly conftituted the feigniory of Lauterßein, and was obtained
by the family of Berbifdotfoi the Burggraves oiLeifznig, at firft by
way of mortgage, but afterwards hereditarily; by which family the faid
lower part of it was dilpofed of in 1559 to tlie Eleä:or Atigußm, who
Vol. V. 4 H railed