THE MINE.

BY THE LATE

REV. ISAAC TAYLOR,

ONGAR, ESSEX,

AUTHOR OF SCENES IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AND AMERICA,"
"THE SHIP," &c.

WITH SIXTEEN ENGRAVINGS.

FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN HARRIS,

CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1832.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Dorset-street, Fleet-street.

IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION.

THE LITTLE LIBRARY,

COMPRISING,

IN A SERIES OF SMALL VOLUMES,

A Familiar Introduction

TO VARIOUS BRANCHES

OF

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

I.

THE MINE.

By the late Rev. ISAAC TAYLOR, of Ongar, Essex.

FOURTH EDITION.

Illustrated with Sixteen Engravings, and a Mineralogical Table. Price 3s. 6d. neatly bound in cloth, square 16mo.

EXTRACT FROM CONTENTS: Ancient Coal Mine.-Gold Mines. -Anglesea Mines.-Black Damp.-Black Lead.-Blast Furnace. -Blasting Mines.-Boring for Coal.- Brazil Diamonds.-Bristol Stones. Cannel Coal.-Captain of a Mine.-Carron Founderies. -Choke Damp.-Cinnabar.-Coining Tin.-Copper; its various Mines.-Sir H. Davy's Safety Lamp.-Descending into Mines of Copper, Coal, Iron, Salt, and Silver.-Diamonds.-Finding Mines. —Draining Mines.- Dress for a Mine.-Explosions of Coal, Galena, Gas. Fullers' Earth. - Gold, in various Parts of the World.Lead.-Mercury.—History of Mines.—Mineral Cabinet.-Numbers of Mines in Cornwall.-Pactolus.-Phoenicians trading for Tin.— Pig Iron.-Plumbago.-Quantities of Coal sent to London.-Rail Roads. Retorts. Roasting Ore.-Smelting Furnace.-Stamping Mills. Steam Engine.-Stream of Sparks, &c.