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Page 24
... price of it exorbitantly . The King of Prussia , seizing this opportunity to enrich his own subjects , imports great quantities of salt from other countries , and sends it into Poland , where AVARICE DEFEATED . 25 it is sold at a cheaper.
... price of it exorbitantly . The King of Prussia , seizing this opportunity to enrich his own subjects , imports great quantities of salt from other countries , and sends it into Poland , where AVARICE DEFEATED . 25 it is sold at a cheaper.
Page 44
... price of his liberty , and sets him free . He also receives a present of new clothes , and may work on his own account , if he pleases . Smaller diamonds may gain rewards , if they ex- ceed certain fixed sizes . If a negro is suspected ...
... price of his liberty , and sets him free . He also receives a present of new clothes , and may work on his own account , if he pleases . Smaller diamonds may gain rewards , if they ex- ceed certain fixed sizes . If a negro is suspected ...
Page 45
... price of those already brought over , spoil the trade . " It is very remarkable , that diamonds are of the same substance as charcoal ; a fact which , in the progress of your studies , you will be made acquainted with . To many persons ...
... price of those already brought over , spoil the trade . " It is very remarkable , that diamonds are of the same substance as charcoal ; a fact which , in the progress of your studies , you will be made acquainted with . To many persons ...
Page 76
... price . He soon found how to extract copper from it ; and made so much use of his better knowledge , as to gain a fortune from what may be called the refuse of ignorance . Be careful how you throw any thing away ; or , rather , en ...
... price . He soon found how to extract copper from it ; and made so much use of his better knowledge , as to gain a fortune from what may be called the refuse of ignorance . Be careful how you throw any thing away ; or , rather , en ...
Page 88
... price than smelted copper . " Although it is only about sixty years ago that we say this mass of copper ore was disco- vered , we ought rather to call it a re - discovery , as evident traces are met with continually of this mine having ...
... price than smelted copper . " Although it is only about sixty years ago that we say this mass of copper ore was disco- vered , we ought rather to call it a re - discovery , as evident traces are met with continually of this mine having ...
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adit AMUSING ancient baskets beds blast BLAST FURNACE bottom BRADLEY COAL-MINE Brazil brought bucket called CANNEL COAL carried caverns cinnabar clay cloth coal COLLIERIES coloured copper COPPER-MINES Cornwall Dannemora deep depth descend diamonds discovered dred dykes earth Edition eight employed England excavations fire Forest of Dean formed Fowey furnace gold gold-mines grains gunpowder half half-bound horses hundred feet Illustrations iron ISAAC TAYLOR James Kolyvan labour lumps Mam Tor mass metal mile Millstone grit MINERAL VEINS miners mines mode morocco mountains native nearly Newcastle obtained operation papa persons PERU Petersburgh pieces pillars piston places Potosi pounds Price principal produce province quantity quicksilver river rock roof Russia salt sand shaft side silex silver smelted soil sometimes sort Spain Spaniards steam-engine stones STORIES strata stratum stream substance suppose surface Sweden thick Thompson thousand tion traveller twelve various kinds washed wood workmen
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