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person might easily make all the machines required for the Cotton manufactures, by the perusal of Dr. Ure’s book:—a sufficient proof of the fulness and accuracy of the descriptions and illustrations.
The 'Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines,' was first published in 1837, with a supplement two years later: the whole having been repeatedly revised, to include the most recent discoveries and inventions, and greatly enlarged in the latest edition of 1853. This is a book of vast research, and
