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Radcliffe Tracts 91 (5)Pryce, W., of Redruth
The Plan of a Work, entituled Mineralogia Cornubiensis et Leges Stannariae; Or, (1) A General Treatise upon Minerals, Mines, and Mining; wherein the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, as to their Origin, Matter, Formation, Direction, Inclination, Interruption, Elevation and Depression, are Rationally accounted for, upon Mosaic Principles, and the Universal System of Nature and Philosophy. With the Methods at large of Discovering, Working, and Drawing the Water of Tin, Copper and Lead Mines. Together with the Cleansing and Metalising their Products; shewing each particular Process for Digging, Raising, Dressing, Assaying and Smelting of Ores in Cornwall. Also, (2) The History, Laws, Customs, and Government of the Stannaries, from the earliest Records to the present time; including all the Acts, and Laws of the Stannaries, from the 2d. of Hen. viii to the 27th. of Geo. ii. With abstracts of the Forms, Journals, and Proceedings of sundry Convocations, or Parliaments of Tinners. To which will be added, a Cornu-British Etymological explanation of the Cornu-Technical Terms and Idioms of Tinners; with the Topography of most Parishes, Mines, Gentlemens Seats, and Houses in Cornwall, according to their British Derivations and Terminations
Falmouth: Printed for the Author; and sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, n.d. [before 1775].
[1934-41]
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