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351,) _Argentifodin_ in Hercyniis montibus, imperante Othone magno (A.D.
968) primum apertae, largam etiam opes augendi dederunt copiam: but Rimius (p.
258, 259) defers till the year 1016 the discovery of the silver mines of Grubenhagen, or the Upper Hartz, which were productive in the beginning of the xivth century, and which still yield a considerable revenue to the house of Brunswick.] [Footnote 18: Cantacuzene has given a most honorable testimony, hn d' ek Germanvn auth Jugathr doukoV nti Mprouzouhk, (the modern Greeks employ the nt for the d, and the mp for the b, and the whole will read in the Italian idiom di Brunzuic,) tou par autoiV epijanestatou, kai ?iamprothti pantaV touV omojulouV uperballontoV.
The praise is just in itself, and pleasing to an English ear.] [Footnote 19: Anne, or Jane, was one of the four daughters of Amedee the Great, by a second marriage, and half-sister of his successor Edward count of Savoy.
(Anderson's Tables, p.650.See Cantacuzene, l.i.
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