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" Gold, silver, and copper, are found in their perfect state in the clefts of rocks, in the sides of mountains, or the channels of rivers. These were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, the most serviceable of all, and... "
The British Museum, Historical and Descriptive ... - Page 82
by David Masson - 1850 - 432 pages
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The History of America, Volume 2

William Robertson - 1803 - 424 pages
...nations. Nature completes the formation of some metals. Gold, silver, and copper, are found in their perfect state in the clefts of rocks, in the sides of mountains, or the channels of rivers. These were BOOK accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, the most serviceable...
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Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to ...

William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 458 pages
...of rocks, in the tides of mountains, or in the channels of rivers. These were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, the...indebted, is never discovered in its perfect form ; it must feel twice th'. force of fire, and go through two laborious pr' cesses before it become fit...
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The History of the Discovery and Settlement: To the Present Time, of North ...

William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 432 pages
...remote. Nature completes the formation of some metals : gold, silver, and copper are found in their perfect state in the clefts of rocks, in the sides of mountains, or in the channels of rivers. These were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use....
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Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records ..., Volume 24

William Fordyce Mavor - 1805 - 414 pages
...of rocks, in the sides of mountains, or in the channels of rivers. These were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, the most serviceable of all, and to which manis most indebted, is never discovered in its perfect form ; it must feel twice the force of fire,...
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The History of the Discovery and Settlement: To the Present Time, of North ...

William Fordyce Mavor - 1806 - 492 pages
...mountains, or in the channels of rivers. These were accordingly the metals first known, and first ap, plied to use. But iron, the most serviceable of all, and to which mail is most indebted, is never discovered in its perfect form ; it must feel twice the force of fire,...
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America: In which is Included the Posthumous Volume Containing the ..., Volume 2

William Robertson - 1809 - 392 pages
...nation*. Nature completes the formation of some metals. Gold, silver, and copper, are found in their perfect state in the clefts of rocks, in the sides of mountains, or the channels of rivers. These were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, Lthe most serviceable...
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The Historical Works of William Robertson: With an Account of His ..., Volume 3

William Robertson - 1813 - 620 pages
...nations. Nature completes the formation of some metals. Gold, silver, and copper, are found in their perfect state in the clefts of rocks, in the sides of mountains, or the channels of rivers. These were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, the most serviceable...
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The historical works of William Robertson, with an account of his life and ...

William Robertson - 1813 - 490 pages
...nations. Nature completes the formation of some metals. Gold, silver, and copper, are found ia their perfect state in the clefts of rocks, in the sides of mountains, or the channels of rjvers. Those were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, the most...
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The History of America, Volume 2

William Robertson - 1817 - 488 pages
...clefts of rocks, in the sides of mountains, or the channels of rivers. These were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, the...indebted, is never discovered in its perfect form j its gross and stubborn ore must feel BOOK twice the force of fire, and go through two laborious processes,...
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The works of William Robertson, D.D. To which is prefixed, an ..., Volume 9

William Robertson - 1817 - 444 pages
...nations. Nature completes the formation of some metals. Gold, silver, and copper, are found in their perfect state in the clefts of rocks, in the sides of mountains, or the channels of rivers. These were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, the most serviceable...
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