Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain, Հատոր 3Longman, 1811 |
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... copper in preference to iron . But how did it happen , that these same Americans , who wrought by means of fire * a great variety of minerals , were never led to the discovery of iron by the mixture of combustible substances with the ...
... copper in preference to iron . But how did it happen , that these same Americans , who wrought by means of fire * a great variety of minerals , were never led to the discovery of iron by the mixture of combustible substances with the ...
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... copper , resembled the χαλκος of the Greeks , and the Aes of the Romans . The Mexican and Peruvian sculptors executed large works in the hardest greenstone , ( grünstein ) , and basaltic porphyry : The jeweller cut and pierced the ...
... copper , resembled the χαλκος of the Greeks , and the Aes of the Romans . The Mexican and Peruvian sculptors executed large works in the hardest greenstone , ( grünstein ) , and basaltic porphyry : The jeweller cut and pierced the ...
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... copper . A single mineral which has been no where discovered but at Wheal Rock , in Cornwall , the sulphuret of tin ( tin- pyrites ) contains both copper and tin in equal parts . We know not whether the Mexican nations worked veins in ...
... copper . A single mineral which has been no where discovered but at Wheal Rock , in Cornwall , the sulphuret of tin ( tin- pyrites ) contains both copper and tin in equal parts . We know not whether the Mexican nations worked veins in ...
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... copper to which the form of a T was given where used as a currency . Cortez relates that having undertaken to found cannons in Mexico , and having dispatched emissaries for the dis- covery of mines of tin and copper , he learned that in ...
... copper to which the form of a T was given where used as a currency . Cortez relates that having undertaken to found cannons in Mexico , and having dispatched emissaries for the dis- covery of mines of tin and copper , he learned that in ...
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... copper , tin , lead , and of the mercury mines . I thought it necessary to enter into these details , not only to throw some light on the antient cultivation of these countries , but also to show that the European colonists in the first ...
... copper , tin , lead , and of the mercury mines . I thought it necessary to enter into these details , not only to throw some light on the antient cultivation of these countries , but also to show that the European colonists in the first ...
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