British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... ; in Jamaica it passes by the name of the sun - fish . It is in general about fourteen inches long . ELYMUS , in botany , lymegrass , a ge . nus of the Triandria Digynia class and order . Natural order of Gramina , or Grasses . ELO ELY.
... ; in Jamaica it passes by the name of the sun - fish . It is in general about fourteen inches long . ELYMUS , in botany , lymegrass , a ge . nus of the Triandria Digynia class and order . Natural order of Gramina , or Grasses . ELO ELY.
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... inch . He afterwards takes up the enamel with an iron spatula as equally as posible . As the enamel here spoken of is trans- parent , it is usual to ornament the gold with rose work , or other kinds of work , calculated to produce a ...
... inch . He afterwards takes up the enamel with an iron spatula as equally as posible . As the enamel here spoken of is trans- parent , it is usual to ornament the gold with rose work , or other kinds of work , calculated to produce a ...
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... inches diameter and fifteen long , it has a flanch at each end , whereon to screw two covers , with stuffing boxes , a , a , in their centres , through which the spindle , B , B , of the engine passes , and being tight is a tumbler , or ...
... inches diameter and fifteen long , it has a flanch at each end , whereon to screw two covers , with stuffing boxes , a , a , in their centres , through which the spindle , B , B , of the engine passes , and being tight is a tumbler , or ...
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... inches diame- ter , are unscrewed from the lids , hh , of the chambers f g , and when cleaned are screwed on again : these screw covers fit perfectly tight without leather , and can be taken out , the engine cleared , and enclosed again ...
... inches diame- ter , are unscrewed from the lids , hh , of the chambers f g , and when cleaned are screwed on again : these screw covers fit perfectly tight without leather , and can be taken out , the engine cleared , and enclosed again ...
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... inches in diameter , through which water descends from the head to the place of its delivery , to run off by an adit at S , through a fall of 34- fathoms in the whole ; that is to say , in a close pipe down the slope of a hill 200 ...
... inches in diameter , through which water descends from the head to the place of its delivery , to run off by an adit at S , through a fall of 34- fathoms in the whole ; that is to say , in a close pipe down the slope of a hill 200 ...
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