Useful Knowledge: Volume 1. Minerals / Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature

William Bingley

PREFACE.

EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES OF THE FIRST VOLUME .

MINERALS.

INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME.

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Useful Knowledge: 4th ed. Minerals. Vol 1 of 3

Frontispiece to Vol. I. see Page 237.

Comparative Height of Mountains, Cities and Lakes
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USEFUL KNOWLEDGE:

A FAMILIAR ACCOUNT

OF THE

VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS

Nature,

MINERAL, VEGETABLE, AND ANIMAL,

WHICH ARE CHIEFLY EMPLOYED FOR THE USE OF MAN.

Illustrated with numerous Figures, and intended as a Work both of Instruction and Reference.

BY THE

Rev. WILLIAM BINGLEY, AM. FLS.

LATE OF PETERHOUSE, CAMBRIDGE, AND AUTHOR OF ANIMAL BIOGRAPHY.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I. MINERALS.

FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY;

HARVEY AND DARTON;

AND C. AND J. RIVINGTON.

1825.

C. Baldwin, Printer,

New Bridge-street, London.

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