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Page 24
... pounds of salt , have been annually raised from these mines . " While Poland had a king , he derived a con- siderable revenue from these mines ; it is said , nearly 100,000l . of our money , every year . Since the partition of Poland by ...
... pounds of salt , have been annually raised from these mines . " While Poland had a king , he derived a con- siderable revenue from these mines ; it is said , nearly 100,000l . of our money , every year . Since the partition of Poland by ...
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... are steam - engines in full work , each of a thousand horse power , capable of raising fifty million pounds of water , through the space of a foot , with only the expense in fuel of one bushel 30 DIAMONDS . of coals . Such is the mode.
... are steam - engines in full work , each of a thousand horse power , capable of raising fifty million pounds of water , through the space of a foot , with only the expense in fuel of one bushel 30 DIAMONDS . of coals . Such is the mode.
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... mind , James ; in the course of your life it may save you many pounds . Yet , if nobody bought anything but what is ab- solutely useful , many of the finer arts of life 32 DIAMONDS . would be uncultivated , and the artists.
... mind , James ; in the course of your life it may save you many pounds . Yet , if nobody bought anything but what is ab- solutely useful , many of the finer arts of life 32 DIAMONDS . would be uncultivated , and the artists.
Page 51
... miners have made their excavations to a full mile in length , but have not yet come to the end of it . They some- times find pure lumps of metal , of twenty pounds ' weight . 52 MINERAL VEINS . " They have to blast the. A LODE. ...
... miners have made their excavations to a full mile in length , but have not yet come to the end of it . They some- times find pure lumps of metal , of twenty pounds ' weight . 52 MINERAL VEINS . " They have to blast the. A LODE. ...
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... pounds . EXPLANATION OF THE STEAM - ENGINE . A. The furnace . B. The water , which is kept boiling , to afford the steam . C. The pipe conveying the steam . D. The cylinder , in which the piston works . E. The piston , moving up and ...
... pounds . EXPLANATION OF THE STEAM - ENGINE . A. The furnace . B. The water , which is kept boiling , to afford the steam . C. The pipe conveying the steam . D. The cylinder , in which the piston works . E. The piston , moving up and ...
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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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