Gowland, William, 1842-1922, Japan Society of London · [London? : s.n.] · leaf 30
n a similar mannerexcept that the reduced metal was laded into moulds. ( 37 )The process in operation as it was conducted in Japan isillustrated in fig. 6. The clay moulds are shown in front andthe bellows behind the furnace, which is simply a hemisphericalhole in the ground. The process is a very… … Fig. 6.—Japanese Lead Smelting {Archceologia, LVIL). which I visited, where the ores were rather impure, no lead,but only silver, was obtained for sale. All these mines, although true lead mines, were not regardedas such, but as silver mines, and were called gin-san {gin,silver; san, mine). The…
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