SCIENCE, ART, LITERATURE, AND PRACTICAL MECHANICS, COMPRISING A POPULAR VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE. ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS, A GENERAL ATLAS, AND APPROPRIATE DIAGRAMS. Sic oportet ad dbram, presertim miscellanei generis, legendum accedere lectorem, ut soluc ad convirium conviva civilis. A reader should sit down to a book, especially of the miscellaneous kind, as a well-behaved visitor does to a banquet. The BY THE ORIGINAL EDITOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA METROPOLITANA, ASSISTED BY EMINENT PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER GENTLEMEN, IN TWENTY-TWO VOLUMES. VOL. VI. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE; SOLD BY N. HAILES, PICCADILLY; E. WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE; J. MASON, CITY ROAD; GRIFFIX & CO. GLASGOW: J. CUMMING, DUBLIN M. BAUDRY, PARIS: F. FLEISCHER, LEIPSIC : 1829. |