Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 91Pub. for J. Hinton., 1792 |
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... ALSO Of the NEW THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS . VOL . XCI . SOITCO DIEU SN MON DROIT LONDON : Published under his Majesty's Royal Licence , By W. BENT , at the KING'S ARMS , PATER - NOSTER ROW . MDCCXCII . 1 Complete , sets Clock 2-2-39 THE ...
... ALSO Of the NEW THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS . VOL . XCI . SOITCO DIEU SN MON DROIT LONDON : Published under his Majesty's Royal Licence , By W. BENT , at the KING'S ARMS , PATER - NOSTER ROW . MDCCXCII . 1 Complete , sets Clock 2-2-39 THE ...
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... also fee them covered almost all over with it , like a duft ; nevertheless , it has been fuppofed to be the wax , or that the wax was extracted from it . Reaumur is of this opinion . I made feveral experiments to fee if there was fuch a ...
... also fee them covered almost all over with it , like a duft ; nevertheless , it has been fuppofed to be the wax , or that the wax was extracted from it . Reaumur is of this opinion . I made feveral experiments to fee if there was fuch a ...
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... also with old comb , but I could not fay that it was made yellow , Wax , by bleaching , is brought back to its natural colour , which is alfo a proof that its colour is derived from fome mixture . I have reason to be- lieve that they ...
... also with old comb , but I could not fay that it was made yellow , Wax , by bleaching , is brought back to its natural colour , which is alfo a proof that its colour is derived from fome mixture . I have reason to be- lieve that they ...
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... also to a very fmall part the Compass - hill , there is a little hole of the rock , which seemed to us di- dug , about a foot or two in depth . rectly fouth from the hole on Compass- A compass placed in this hole is in- hill . At a ...
... also to a very fmall part the Compass - hill , there is a little hole of the rock , which seemed to us di- dug , about a foot or two in depth . rectly fouth from the hole on Compass- A compass placed in this hole is in- hill . At a ...
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... also by itself in a variety of places . Selenites of many kinds abound in England in clays . Very fine gypfam has been dug from the falt rocks at Nantwich , in Cheshire . The felenites , called rhomboidalis , from the figures it makes ...
... also by itself in a variety of places . Selenites of many kinds abound in England in clays . Very fine gypfam has been dug from the falt rocks at Nantwich , in Cheshire . The felenites , called rhomboidalis , from the figures it makes ...
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