SCIENCE, ART, LITERATURE, AND PRACTICAL MECHANICS, COMPRISING A POPULAR VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE. ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS, A GENERAL ATLAS, AND APPROPRIATE DIAGRAMS. Sle oportet ad librum, presertim miscellanel generis, legendum accedere lectorem, ut solet ad convivium conviva civilis. Erasmus. A reader should sit down to a book, especially of the miscellaneous kind, as a well-behaved visitor does to a banquet. The BY THE ORIGINAL EDITOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA METROPOLITANA, ASSISTED BY EMINENT PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER GENTLEMEN, IN TWENTY-TWO VOLUMES. VOL. IX. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE; SOLD BY N. HAILES, PICCADILLY; E. WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE; J. MASON, CITY ROAD; BOWDERY & KERBY, OXFORD STREET: GRIFFIN & CO. GLASGOW: J. CUMMING, DUBLIN: M. BAUDRY, PARIS: F. FLEISCHER, LEIPSIC : AND WHIPPLE & LAWRENCE, SALEM, NORTH AMERICA. 1829. |