ASBESTOS
ITS PRODUCTION AND USE
WITH
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ASBESTOS MINES
OF CANADA
By ROBERT H. JONES
LONDON:
CROSBY LOCKWOOD AND SON
7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL
1888
PREFACE.
The substance of the following pages was originally comprised in a series of Letters from Canada to a friend in London, who was desirous of obtaining all the authentic information possible on a subject on which so little appears to be generally known.
The use of Asbestos in the arts and manufactures is now rapidly assuming such large proportions that, it is believed, it will presently be found more difficult to say to what purposes it cannot be applied than to what it can and is.