A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Manufactures in Metal, Bind 3

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1834
 

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Side 131 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Side 330 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Side 194 - I endeavoured in vain to assay a small part ; the natives regard it with superstitious veneration, and they would not allow even a grain to be filed off...
Side 336 - The vicinity of this river every where attests the extensive search for gold formerly pursued here, as it was for a length of time considered one of the richest parts of Brazil, from the profusion of the precious metal found on its surface. All the banks of the stream are furrowed out in a most extraordinary manner, so as to be altogether unaccountable to one unacquainted with the cause. The whole of the vegetable mould was washed away, and nothing remained but a red earth, cut into square channels,...
Side 338 - Streams abounding in gold wander through the most luxuriant corn-fields, and the farmer and the miner hold converse together on their banks.
Side 37 - ... this is an operation that requires great attention, because, as the plate is immersed in the grease while the tin is in a melting, or at least in a soft, state upon it, a part must run off, and the remainder become less and less while the plate continues in it ; therefore, if these plates should eve'r be left in the melted tallow longer than is absolutely necessary, they will doubtless require to be dipped a third time in the tin. On the other hand, if 'the plates were to be finished without...
Side 159 - Davy asserts that weak solutions of common salt, such as are daily made by adding a little salt to boiling vegetables and other eatables in our kitchens, act powerfully on copper vessels, although strong ones do not affect them.
Side 193 - Moscow, like the fullest tones of a vast organ, or the rolling of distant thunder. This bell is suspended in a tower called the belfry of St. Ivan, beneath others, which, though of less size, are enormous. It is...
Side 319 - In the year 1543, it was enacted, " that no person shall put to sale any pinnes, but only such as shall be double-headed, and have the heads soldered fast to the shank of the pinnes, well smoothed, the shank well shaped, the points well and round filed, counted and sharpened.
Side 66 - A second quantity of lead is poured in a similar manner, and a similar plate formed, the process being carried on with singular rapidity. The rough edges of the plates are then cut off', and they are soldered together for use.

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