The miner's guide: or, compleat miner. Containing, I. A succinct account of a vein in the earth, and by what Names Veins are distinguished, with a short Account of their Progress. II. The Customs, Laws and Articles of the High and Low-Peak, together with several private Liberties; the last Edition compared with the true Original Copies, and several Errors corrected. And all their Bills of Plaint, Customs, Cross-Bills, Arrests, Plaintiff's Cases, or Briefs; with all other Forms necessary for all Miners and Maintainers of Mines, within each Manour, Lordship, or Wapentake. III. An Account of the Load-Stone, with the first Invention of the Compass; to which is joined Houghton's Dialing and Levelling, illustrated with Variety of additional Examples. IV. Several curious and useful Tables, in most Branches in Mining, by Inspection; useful to both Masters, Overseers, and Others, concerned in the Mineral Way. V. A brief Account of the Assaying the two Metals, Lead and Copper. The whole interspers'd with Variety of curious Observations. By William Hardy.
- Hardy, William, writer on mining.
- Date:
- [1748]
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Sheffield : printed by Francis Lister, [1748]
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vii,[1],234,[2]p.,plates : ill. ; 80.
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ESTC T88007
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.