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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… been many attempts made towards the discovery of tin and copper mines. The tin mines have been discovered since Oct. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… will destroy all our canes, and buildings, carry off our copper stills, destroy our cattle, that they can neither eat …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… sandy beach, and its importance from the discovery of the copper-mines in its vicinity, aided by a small cove between … to the invention of gunpowder, it is evident that copper-ore has been worked here at a very early period; and … and at Llanvaethlu, a few miles from this place, a cake of copper was found, weighing fifty pounds, and bearing a mark …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… PEPPER as colorant and 'a very clean iron, or well tinned copper saucepan' to cook it in. It included no butter [Accum … Saturn, its red to iron, its yellow to gold, its green to copper, its blue to silver, its white to mercury, its mixed … as Beating, Broken, Flat, for forging mills for IRON and COPPER, GREAT, LITTLE, OLD, SMALL, SPOON, for STAMPs, WROUGHT …
A Dictionary of London
… South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames, west of Copper Wharf (Horwood, 1799). See Horseshoe Wharf and Anchor …
Magna Britannia
… the figures of a man in a judge's robe, and his wife, on copper plates, with the following inscription round the verge …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… quantities of limestone, and at the latter place is also a copper-mine, which, when worked some time since, produced a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… burned clay', 6 in. high and 20 in. in circumference. A copper coin is said to have been found in one of them, but … the head, through which is threaded a large ring of thin wire. Pins with ringed heads are cited by Baldwin Brown 18 … and the guard is inlaid with four doubled lines of gold wire. They are probably earlier than the battle of Burford in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the strands consisting of two twisted wires with a single wire on either side of them. At the back the tapering wires …
A History of the County of York
… Egbert. Silver was never plentiful in the north and a copper coin, usually but incorrectly called a styca, … traversed Russia. In York itself they replaced the Anglian copper stycas by a silver coinage often based on Frankish …