Theater of Machines, Volume II

of good taste. Likewise, in small fissures, one finds thin water; but when one digs into the depth, such waters are soft and tasteless. In black earth, one finds small, weak veins, but in fissures, one finds them moderate, yet they are inconstant springs, though of good taste. In quite coarse sand and carbuncle stone a red garnet or similar gemstone, the waters are more certain and of good taste. The spring rising from the Rattenstein rat-stone/a type of sedimentary rock is strong and good, provided such does not flow away through adjacent veins, but the well-springs at the bottom of the mountains, out of the rock and Rißling fissure-stone, are richer, cooler, and healthier.

Field-well springs, however, are saltier, heavier, warm, and tasteless. Unless it were that a vein came from a mountain and broke open on the plain, and the little spring were shaded by trees, then it provides a good taste.