Volume 1

General view of the agriculture and minerals of Derbyshire, with observations on the means of their improvement / [John Farey].

  • Farey, John, 1766-1826
Date:
1811-1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: General view of the agriculture and minerals of Derbyshire, with observations on the means of their improvement / [John Farey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sect, 5. Minerals. Measuring of Lead Ore—C ope. Lot or Duty—Sougher’s Composition—Tithes—Manour Dues, page 365. Methods of working Lead Mines, 366. Shafts-Men, Gate-Men, and Copers, and the Mode of letting them the Work, 366. Stoops, face of the Work or Forefield, 367. Slickenside Explosions in Gang Mine—Blasting, 367. Setters-on, Turn-drawers, Drawing the Ore, 367 and 368. Drawing forwards, or making Bunnings—Stemples and Fails, 368. Produce of Ore from a Vein, 369. Mode of working Pipe Veins, 369. Mines generally worked in partnership, 370. The D :ties of all kinds taken in Ore, 370. Tithe of Lead Ore only paid in two Parishes, 370. Climbing Shafts—Fires anciently used in Mines, 37L Stream-Works, or Alluvial Ore, 371. Gin-Driver, Striker, 258. Dressing or cleansing of Lead Ore from its impuri- ties, 372. Sorting, Riddling, Swilling, Picking, Knocking, 373 and 374-. Cavers—Washing, Buddling the Vat, Lueing, 374. Puddling, its injurious effects to the Farmer, 377, Modes of selling Lead Ore, 378. Potters’ Ore—Ore Buyers and Carriers, 378, Processes of Smelting Lead Ore, 380. Claim of Timber and Wood by the Miners in the King’s Field, 381. A List of ancient Lead-smelting Boles or Furnaces, 382. Slag-Hearths and Mills—formerly these belonged to the Crown, 383 and 384. A List of Cupolas or Reverbatory Lead Smelting Furnaces, 385. Description of Mr. John Milne’s improved Lead Cu- polas, 386.