LONDON ENCYCLOPÆDIA, OR UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF 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 miscellanei generis, legendum accedere lectorem, ut solet ad convivium conviva A reader should sit down to a book, especially of the miscellaneous kind, as a well-behaved visitor does to a ban- BY THE ORIGINAL EDITOR OF THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA METROPOLITANA, IN TWENTY-TWO VOLUMES. VOL. XIX. 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: AND WHIPPLE & LAWRENCE, SALEM, NORTH AMERICA. 1829. |