THE LITTLE LIBRARY,
COMPRISING,
IN A SERIES OF SMALL VOLUMES,
A Familiar Introduction
TO VARIOUS BRANCHES
OF
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
I.
THE MINE.
By the late Rev. Isaac Taylor, of Ongar, Essex.
THIRD EDITION.
Illustrated with Sixteen Engravings, and a Mineralogical Table. Price 3s. 6d. neatly bound in cloth, square 16mo.
Extract from Contents: Ancient Coal Mine.—Gold Mines.—Anglesea Mines.—Black Damp.—Black Lead—Blast Furnace.—Blasting Mines.—Boring for Coal.—Brazil Diamonds.—Bristol Stones.—Cannel Coal.—Captain of a Mine.—Carron Founderies.—Choke Damp.—Cinnabar.—Coining Tin.—Copper; its various Mines—Sir H. Davy's Safety Lamp.—Descending into Mines of Copper, Coal, Iron, Salt, and Silver.—Diamonds.—Finding Mines.—Draining Mines.—Dress for a Mine.—Explosion of Coal.—Galena.—Gas.—Fullers' Earth.—Gold, in various parts of the World.—Lead.—Mercury.—History of Mines.—Mineral Cabinet.—Numbers of Mines in Cornwall.—Pactolus.—Phœnicians trading for Tin.—Pig Iron.—Plumbago.—Quantities of Coal sent to London.—Rail Roads.—Retorts.—Roasting Ore.—Smelting Furnace.—Stamping Mills.—Steam Engine.—Stream of Sparks, &c.
VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED.
II.
THE SHIP.