Popular Voyages and Travels Throughout the Continent & Islands of Europe: In which the Geography, Character, Customs, and Manners of Nations are Described, and the Phenomena of Nature, Most Worthy of Observation, are Illustrated on Scientific Principles |
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... Salt - mines - Northwitch . 64 51 Llewellyn's Grey- 55 58 59 FREER 823 5 888 11 13 17 22 25 30 36 42 49 X. Chester Antiquities St. Winifred's Well - Conway Castle .... XI . Wales - Lunar Rainbow hound Beth Gelert - Snowdon ILOM XII ...
... Salt - mines - Northwitch . 64 51 Llewellyn's Grey- 55 58 59 FREER 823 5 888 11 13 17 22 25 30 36 42 49 X. Chester Antiquities St. Winifred's Well - Conway Castle .... XI . Wales - Lunar Rainbow hound Beth Gelert - Snowdon ILOM XII ...
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... salt ; and as the globe cooled , the water which had before been kept in the state of steam , assumed fluidity , and falling to the earth , produced the ocean . " Whiston's " New Theory of the Earth , leaves B 3 INTRODUCTION . 5.
... salt ; and as the globe cooled , the water which had before been kept in the state of steam , assumed fluidity , and falling to the earth , produced the ocean . " Whiston's " New Theory of the Earth , leaves B 3 INTRODUCTION . 5.
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... salt , coal , basalt , and some other bodies , which Werner hath called subordinate formations . Lastly , subterraneous fires have sometimes given birth to peculiar and very limited products ; and these are called volcanic rocks . Such ...
... salt , coal , basalt , and some other bodies , which Werner hath called subordinate formations . Lastly , subterraneous fires have sometimes given birth to peculiar and very limited products ; and these are called volcanic rocks . Such ...
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... salts ; magnesia being the basis of several salts , is of great use in medicine ; and alumina , by a due mixture with silex , is capable of forming vessels for chemists , that will resist the action of the most concentrated acids , and ...
... salts ; magnesia being the basis of several salts , is of great use in medicine ; and alumina , by a due mixture with silex , is capable of forming vessels for chemists , that will resist the action of the most concentrated acids , and ...
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... salt and car- bonic acid , from both of which it must be purified , before it can be used in making glass . The earths are silicia , the basis of flints , lime , and a little alumina , the basis of clay . Rock crystal is sometimes used ...
... salt and car- bonic acid , from both of which it must be purified , before it can be used in making glass . The earths are silicia , the basis of flints , lime , and a little alumina , the basis of clay . Rock crystal is sometimes used ...
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