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... various returns in this Book , with confidence , as they are altogether taken from official or otherwise authentic documents . It has been the author's study to condense his subject as much as was consistent with the necessary detail ...
... various returns in this Book , with confidence , as they are altogether taken from official or otherwise authentic documents . It has been the author's study to condense his subject as much as was consistent with the necessary detail ...
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... various iron ores and their location the author scarcely interferes , being well aware that that department more justly belongs to the prac- tical geologist , from whose labours increasing information is constantly elicited , and ...
... various iron ores and their location the author scarcely interferes , being well aware that that department more justly belongs to the prac- tical geologist , from whose labours increasing information is constantly elicited , and ...
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... various useful purposes . The earliest method of working the furnaces where ores were smelted , seems to have been by exposing them to the wind- such was the practice of the Peruvians before the arrival of the Spaniards . From Alonso ...
... various useful purposes . The earliest method of working the furnaces where ores were smelted , seems to have been by exposing them to the wind- such was the practice of the Peruvians before the arrival of the Spaniards . From Alonso ...
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... various instruments , by being repeatedly heated in a forge , the heat of which is urged by a pair of double bellows , of a very simple construction , being made of two goats ' skins , the tubes from which unite before they enter the ...
... various instruments , by being repeatedly heated in a forge , the heat of which is urged by a pair of double bellows , of a very simple construction , being made of two goats ' skins , the tubes from which unite before they enter the ...
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... various military weapons used by the Roman soldiers were manufactured . The business of this society , and the laws which regulated it , are developed by the Theodosian and Justinian codes . It there appears that , towards the ...
... various military weapons used by the Roman soldiers were manufactured . The business of this society , and the laws which regulated it , are developed by the Theodosian and Justinian codes . It there appears that , towards the ...
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