Crossword-Solution: METALLICA 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Simon Sturtevant, in his 'Treatise of Metallica,' published in 1612, estimates the whole number of iron-mills in England and Wales at 800, of which, he says, "there are foure hundred milnes in Surry, Kent, and Sussex, as the townsmen of Haslemere have testified and numbered unto me." But the townsmen of Haslemere must certainly have been exaggerating, unless they counted smiths' and farriers' shops in the number of iron-mills.

His 'Treatise of Metallica'[3] shows that Rovenzon had a true conception of the method of manufacture.

They are also a most laborious class; and Le Play says of them, when alluding to the fact of a single workman superintending the operations of three steel-casting furnaces--"I have found nowhere in Europe, except in England, workmen able for an entire day, without any interval of rest, to undergo such toilsome and exhausting labour as that performed by these Sheffield workmen." [1] AGRICOLA, De Re Metallica.

Paracelsus, though he has a reputation for magical daring, thought the use of the twig 'uncertain and unlawful'; and Agricola, in his 'De Re Metallica' (1546) expresses a good deal of scepticism about the use of the rod in mining.

From Agricola's "De Re Metallica 1550." Primitive furnace for smelting iron ore.] Not many of us have ever seen iron, the pure metal, soft, ductile and white like silver.