SCIENCE, ART, LITERATURE, AND PRACTICAL MECHANICS. COMPRISING A POPULAR VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE. ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS, A GENERAL ATLAS, AND APPROPRIATE DIAGRAMS. Sic oportet ad librum, presertim misce.lanei generis, 1egendum accedere lectorem, ut solet ad convisiuta conviva civils. A reaaer snould sit down to a book, especially of the miscellaneous kind, as a well-behaved visitor does to a banquet. The BY THE ORIGINAL EDITOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA METROPOLITANA, ASSISTED BY EMINENT PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER GENTLEMEN. IN TWENTY-TWO VOLUMES. VOL. V. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE; SOLD BY N. HAILES. PICCADILLY; E. WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE; J. MASON, CITY ROAD ; GRIFFIN & CO. GLASGOW: J. CUMMING, DUBLIN: M. BAUDRY, PARIS: F. FLEISCHER, LEIPSIC : 1829. |