Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 14, Part 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 69
... ounce pearls , from their being fold by the ounce and not by tale , are vaftly the moft numerous and common : but , as in diamonds , among the multitudes of fmall ones , there are smaller numbers and larger found , so in pearls there ...
... ounce pearls , from their being fold by the ounce and not by tale , are vaftly the moft numerous and common : but , as in diamonds , among the multitudes of fmall ones , there are smaller numbers and larger found , so in pearls there ...
Page 72
... ounce . We were told that a pearl had been taken there that weighed 33 grains . But this fishery is at prefent exhausted , from the avarice of the undertakers : it once extended as far as Loch - Tay . ( A ) " The truth of this fact ...
... ounce . We were told that a pearl had been taken there that weighed 33 grains . But this fishery is at prefent exhausted , from the avarice of the undertakers : it once extended as far as Loch - Tay . ( A ) " The truth of this fact ...
Page 128
... ounce ; whence the penny became a weight as well as a coin . See STERLING and PENNY- Weight . Perny , easily broke , and parted , on occafion , into two parts , Highlanders entered this town , and quartered in it for Penrofe . Penrith ...
... ounce ; whence the penny became a weight as well as a coin . See STERLING and PENNY- Weight . Perny , easily broke , and parted , on occafion , into two parts , Highlanders entered this town , and quartered in it for Penrofe . Penrith ...
Page 133
... ounce fix drams of English vitriol in a quart of water . A very fmall quantity of the folution of pot afhes infant- ly precipitates the metallic parts of this water in three different colours ; ochre at the top , green in the mid- dle ...
... ounce fix drams of English vitriol in a quart of water . A very fmall quantity of the folution of pot afhes infant- ly precipitates the metallic parts of this water in three different colours ; ochre at the top , green in the mid- dle ...
Page 221
... ounce ; but its fummit being perpetually covered with ice and fnow , no mine has been opened in the moun- tain . The city of La Paz is of a middling fize , and from its fituation among the breaches of the Cordilleras , the ground on ...
... ounce ; but its fummit being perpetually covered with ice and fnow , no mine has been opened in the moun- tain . The city of La Paz is of a middling fize , and from its fituation among the breaches of the Cordilleras , the ground on ...
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