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Page 365 - ... funes nectunt ad praetexenda piscibus retia captumque manibus lutum ventis magis quam sole siccantes terra cibos et rigentia septentrione viscera sua urunt.
Page 502 - The oil is drawn off from the paraffin-oil tower, when a sample solidifies on cooling. It is then subjected to distillation to remove the lighter oils, and a crude paraffin-wax, worth £4 per ton, remains without further purification. The acetate solution from the alkali tower is evaporated to dryness and distilled with sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, to obtain concentrated acetic acid, or is subjected to destructive distillation to obtain acetone.
Page 32 - I have the honour to be, my lords and gentlemen, " Your obedient servant, " J. RUSSELL. " To certain lay members of the Church of England.
Page 4 - Great Britain, as well as to some extent in America. The advantages claimed for the litter are that it affords drier and healthier bedding for horses and cattle than any other material ; that by reason of its great power of absorbing moisture, it binds the valuable portion of the animal excrements, and consequently yields the best manure ; that it acts as a disinfectant and improves the air of the stable, and that a smaller quantity of it is required than would be needed if straw were used. Experience...
Page 143 - A Complete System of Experienced Improvements, made on Sheep, Grass-Lambs, and House-Lambs : or, the Country Gentleman's, the...
Page 502 - U2 afterwards be treated for the recovery of acetic acid or the production of acetone. The gases pass from the alkali tower to the acid towers, where they meet a stream of hot sulphuric acid, which combines with the ammonia to form sulphate of ammonia, the chief object of the process. After the acid is completely neutralized it is drawn off to the crystallizing vats.
Page 505 - Geol. Mag., vol. iii., pp. 321-2. " On the Metamorphic Origin of certain Granitoid Rocks and Granites in the Southern Uplands of Scotland," Geol. Mag., vol. iii., pp. 529-34. 1867. "On the Buried Forests and Peat Mosses of Scotland, and the Changes of Climate which they indicate,
Page 380 - ... Battersea and Brompton is carried to the highest perfection, and it is profitable ; but not to such a degree, as to invite that species of competition, which always follows high profits. The scheme of improving the Bogs of Ireland is by no means •new. The Dutch, in the time of King William, offered, upon condition of being governed by their own laws, to form a colony in the Queen's County, and to make meadow of the whole Bog of Allan. — (v. Philosophical Survey of the .South of Ireland, page...
Page 380 - This draining of the Bogs was performed in the manner following. On that side of the Bog, where the ground was somewhat sloping, they cut a broad deep Trench, beginning it in the firm ground, and advancing it unto the entrance of the Bog, into which Trench the water would sink out of the next parts of the Bog in great abundance...
Page 381 - Parliament should be made, that they who did not, at suck a time, make some progress in draining their Bogs, should part with them to others that would" This is strict justice in every nation upon earth.