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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Proposals for printing by subscription Mineralogia Cornubiensis
:
or, a general treatise upon Minerals, Mines, and Mining, Wherein the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, as to their origin, matter, formation, direction, inclination, interruption, elevation, and depression, Are rationally accounted for, upon the Universal Principles of Nature and Philosophy. With the Methods at large of discovering, working, and drawing the water of Tin, Copper, and Lead Mines, Together with the cleansing and metalizing their Products; Shewing each particular Process for digging, raising, dressing, as saying, and smelting of Ores in Cornwall. To which will be added, A Cornu-British Etymological explanation of the Cornu-Technical Terms and Idioms of Tinners: Including those which are used among the Lead Mines and Collieries of Great-Britain. By W. Pryce, of Redruth, in Cornwall
Other titles:
Mineralogia Cornubiensis. Prospectus
Reproduction series:
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Type of reproduction:
Online-Ausg.
Place of reproduction:
Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
Reproduction note:
Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
Origination:
Footnote:
English Short Title Catalog, T42928
Reproduction of original from British Library
The conditions on the verso of the first leaf include: 'The work shall be .. delivered in the spring of the year 1775.'
The work was published in 1778