So that he who first made known the use of that contemptible mineral, may be truly styled the father of arts, and author of plenty.

The next effort of his pen, an Essay on the External Use of Water, in a letter to Dr., with particular remarks upon the present method of using the mineral waters at Bath, in Somersetshire, &c. (in 1752) was directed to views of professional advancement.

In numerous localities boiling hot mineral water containing silica was forcing itself out of the ground, spreading itself over the surface and depositing a crust, the thickness of which depended on its distance from the center point.

When the channel becomes so much obstructed that the efflux is less than the evaporation, the water ceases to flow over the edge, and the mineral dross, during the continual cooling of the water, is then deposited, with the greatest uniformity, over the inner area of the basin.

A short distance up the stream of the Lkalla Chaca, above Pucará, is a warm mineral spring.

My consolation is that, alike in controversies and in taking mineral waters, the after effects are the true ones.

The following month, Gregory, Bland, and three soldiers of the 96th accompanied Governor Fitzgerald by sea to Champion Bay to examine the new mineral discoveries.

Each is, in effect, a murderess, though it was a moral, not a mineral, poison that Rebecca employed.

[Illustration: Bishop of Turkey] We hear a great deal from scientific men about the influence of climate, atmosphere, and even the proximity of certain mineral substances, upon the life and welfare of man; but there is yet another vein to be worked in this region of human knowledge.

But a shape which will express that soul must be sought, not among mineral, but among vegetable, forms.

To the House of Representatives: I herewith submit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, showing the progress made in complying with the requirements of a resolution passed February 6, 1839, concerning mineral lands of the United States.

"Every ton of dried tobacco-leaves carries off from four to five hundred-weight of this mineral matter,as much as is contained in fourteen tons of the grain of wheat."

Poetry demands a richer and more various culture, and, however good we may find such men as John Woolman and Elias Boudinot, they make us feel painfully that the salt of the earth is something very different, to say the least, from the Attic variety of the same mineral.

Thus it appears that this great basin extends through so many degrees of latitude that its lakes and streams connect with the mineral regions and pine forests of the North, the wheat- and corn-lands and cattle-ranges of the Middle States, and the cotton-and sugar-plantations of the South.

Still, the amount of mineral is immense, and the quality of the purest; and these mines will no doubt pay well, if worked with skill and capital.

It is the hybernating-place of fashion, of intelligence, of vice,a resort without the attractions of waters either mineral or salt, where there is no bathing and no springs, but drinking in abundance and gambling in any quantity.

Mineral specimens here are not various.

The baby's head was, as it were, a test and touchstone for every description of matter,animal, vegetable, and mineral.

The principal occupation of Hans was, however, to assist his mother in carrying on some part of her husband's former trade; she having become acquainted with many of the secrets of the art by which colors could be extracted from plants and mineral substances, so as to give to wool, flax, and silk, bright and unchanging colors.

Opinions are so firmly fixed at present that water is capable of carrying the germs of disease that, in cases of epidemics, the recommendation is made to drink natural mineral waters, or to boil ordinary water.

This is a wise measure, assuredly; but mineral waters are expensive, and, moreover, many persons cannot get used to them.

The rain-water, in percolating through or over the land, flows mainly toward the rivers, and in doing so it becomes more or less charged with mineral matter, lime salts and common salt being the chief of them; while some of that water which has penetrated more deeply into the earth takes up far more solid matter than is ordinarily found in river water.

The vegetable debris thus transformed, but still resistant and elastic, were the ones that were petrified in the mineral waters or covered with sand and clay.

DAKE, H.C. Quartz family minerals; a handbook for the mineral collector.

The most important other sources of raw materials for industry are the mineral deposits in the earth's surface.