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The miner's guide, or, Compleat miner : containing I. A succinct account of a vein in the earth... II. The customs, laws and articles of the High and Low-Peak, together with several private liberties ... III. An account of the load-stone, with the first invention of the compass ... IV. Several curious and useful tables, in most branches in mining, by inspection ... V. A brief account of the assaying the two metals, lead and copper. The whole interspers'd with variety of curious observations
Hardy, William (writer on mining); Manlove, Edward (fl. 1667)
1748
Poem (pp. 110-118), 'The liberties and customs of the lead-mines within the Wapontake of Wirksworth, in the county of Derby. Composed in metre by Edward Manlove'. Ten plates comprising figures IV-X ...
Remarks on some late papers, relating to the universal deluge: and to the natural history of the earth
Harris, John (1667?-1719)
1697
A defence of John Woodward's "Essay toward a natural history of the earth" against certain attacks, especially in "Two essays sent in a letter from Oxford to a nobleman in London" by L.P. Signatures...