A System of Mineralogy: In which Minerals are Arranged According to the Natural History Method, Հատոր 3A. Constable & Company, 1820 |
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2ter th acid acuminated Aikin Antimony Arsenic beds Beit Bert bevelled blende blowpipe Bohemia borax brittle Broch Brong brown iron-ore calcareous-spar Chemical Characters cinnabar cleavage colour Compact conchoidal Constituent copper-glance copper-pyrites crystals disseminated distinct concretions earthy easily frangible effloresces Estner External Characters Foliated fracture fragments are indeterminate galena galena or lead-glance GENUS Genus contains Geognostic and Geographic Geognostic Situation Geographic Situations glimmering glistening gneiss gold granular gypsum Handb Haus Haüy heavy-spar Hematite Hoff Hungary indeterminate angular iron Iron-ore iron-pyrites Karsten Kirw Klaproth lateral planes Leonhard lime limestone lustre is metallic Manganese mineral Mohs Molfetta natif native silver Natron nitre oblique four-sided prism occurs in veins occurs massive Octahedron Oxide Pabst Platina primitive prism Prismatic pyrites quartz Reuss rhomboidal rocks salt shining Siberia silver-glance six-sided Soda sometimes Specific gravity splendent streak Subsp Subspecies Suck Sulphate Sulphur surface Tabel Tellurium truncated uneven vitreous Werner
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Էջ 38 - And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver, it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Էջ 35 - ... obelisks, their pyramids, and statues, indicate, in a manner not to be misunderstood, that instruments of the best-tempered metal must have been placed in the hands of their artists. Africa affords a considerable quantity of gold, which is always obtained in the form of dust and rolled masses, and is found in the sand of rivers, or the alluvial soil of valleys near a mountain-range. The position of Egypt deprives it of this source of wealth ; but in the countries above the Cataracts, especially...
Էջ 151 - I might be induced to adopt the contrary opinion. But I am inclined to attribute the effect of vitriolization observed in some of the pyrites, not so much to the proportion, as to the state of the sulphur in the compound ; for I much suspect, that a predisposition to vitriolization, in these pyrites, is produced by a small portion of oxygen being previously combined with a part, or with the general mass, of the sulphur, at the time of the original formation of these substances, so that the state...
Էջ 36 - Jonson, the great dramatist, was co-eval with Shakspeare. The silver mines of Mexico and Peru far exceed in value the whole of the European and Asiatic mines. Man possesses the great privilege of co-operating with his beneficent Creator. Philosophy will rise again in the sky of her Franklin, and glory rekindle at the urn of her Washington. There is little of the intellectual or moral in that sort of independence which is the proverbial characteristic of...
Էջ 36 - Bambonk furnishes the greatest part of the gold sold on the Western Coast of Africa, as well as much of that which is brought to Morocco, Fez, and Algiers, and to Cairo and Alexandria. Another region of Africa where gold is abundant, lies on the south-east coast, between 15° and 22° of south latitude, and nearly opposite to Madagascar. There, gold is found not only in sand, but in veins, and thereabouts some place the ancient Ophir. Nearer to the Equator, and on the western shores of the continent,...
Էջ 179 - ... but usually more inclined to the first ; it occurs massive and disseminated : internally it is glistening, sometimes shining, and seldom passing into splendent; its lustre is metallic; it is brittle, and the specific gravity is somewhere between 4.
Էջ 44 - this opinion may be considered as very probable, especially when supported by the account which is given o*f some of the native tribes of the north-western parts of America, who, though little civilized, have applied to domestic purposes the native copper with which their country abounds. It is also known that at a very early period, domestic utensils and instruments of war were made of a compound of this metal and tin; even during the Trojan war, as we learn from Homer, the combatants had no other...
Էջ 290 - One thousand cwt. are yearly expended for this purpose; and to Spain alone, the value of 18,000 livres is sold. In Prussia, the amber-diggers, who name it black amber, cut it into various ornamental articles...
Էջ 35 - Desert, there are tracts remarkable for the quantity of gold they contain. Thus the flat country, which extends from the foot of the mountains in which are situated the sources of the Gambia, Senegal, and Niger, has, from an early period, afforded gold. Bambouk, which is situated to the north-west of these mountains, furnishes the greatest part of the gold which is sold on the western coast of Africa, as well as that which is brought to Morocco, Fez, Algiers, Cairo, and Alexandria. The gold, as is...
Էջ 36 - On the coast of California there is a plain of fourteen leagues in extent, about fourteen inches beneath the surface of which, large lumps of gold are irregularly interspersed.