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There are very large silver mines about twenty stadesThe process of producing silver in the mines near New Carthage. from New Carthage, extending to a circuit of four hundred stades, in which forty thousand men are continually employed, who produce for the benefit of the Roman people twenty-five thousand drachmae a day. It would take too long to describe the whole process of working them, but I may mention that the alluvial soil containing the silver ore is first broken up, and sifted in sieves held in water; that then the deposit is again broken, and being again filtered with running water, is broken a third time. This is done five times; the fifth deposit is smelted, and, the lead having been run off, pure silver remains. . . .
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The Anas and Boetis both flow from Celtiberia, their streams being about nine hundredThe Guadiana and Guadalquivir. stades apart. . . .
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Among other cities of the Vaccaei and Celtiberians are Segesama and Intercatia. . . .
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One of the Iberian kings had such a magnificent andHomer, Odyss. 8, 248. richly furnished palace, that he rivalled the luxury of the Phaeacians, except that the vessels standing in the interior of the house, though made of gold and silver, were full of barley-wine. . . .
