Proposals for printing by subscription Mineralogia Cornubiensis; or, 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 the Universal Principles 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 metalizing their Products; Shewing each particular Process for digging, raising, dressing, as saying, and smelting of Ores in Cornwall. To which will be added, A Cornu-British Etymological explanation of the Cornu-Technical Terms and Idioms of Tinners: Including those which are used among the Lead Mines and Collieries of Great-Britain. By W. Pryce, of Redruth, in Cornwall.

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