The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 29Henry Colburn, 1830 |
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Page 58
... Indian opium , and have found the results to harmonize suffici- ently with their known powers determined by other methods . An improved East Indian opium , of which Dr. Chambers gave me a specimen , approaches by this test very closely ...
... Indian opium , and have found the results to harmonize suffici- ently with their known powers determined by other methods . An improved East Indian opium , of which Dr. Chambers gave me a specimen , approaches by this test very closely ...
Page 129
... Indians of Demerara - and " Ichthyology of the fresh - waters of the interior , " -p . 107 . It is a misfortune to be regretted , that we are almost as liable to embrace the errors of anterior writers , as their best truths . I might ...
... Indians of Demerara - and " Ichthyology of the fresh - waters of the interior , " -p . 107 . It is a misfortune to be regretted , that we are almost as liable to embrace the errors of anterior writers , as their best truths . I might ...
Page 158
... India Company . We cannot afford the space to enter into these particulars ; but there is an interesting subject brought forward in the same section with regard to restoring , the author says , the Congreve gun to the service of his ...
... India Company . We cannot afford the space to enter into these particulars ; but there is an interesting subject brought forward in the same section with regard to restoring , the author says , the Congreve gun to the service of his ...
Page 159
... India Company's ship , the Earl Balcarras , has been armed , mounted on the proposed carriage . Commander Marshall says , " as they may be worked by nearly the same number of men as carronades of similar calibre , line of battle ships ...
... India Company's ship , the Earl Balcarras , has been armed , mounted on the proposed carriage . Commander Marshall says , " as they may be worked by nearly the same number of men as carronades of similar calibre , line of battle ships ...
Page 160
... India Company , no less than twenty thousand chests of this dyeing drug are , on an average , brought annually into the market . A very consider- able quantity of indigo is also imported into Europe from Ame- rica and Egypt . It is not ...
... India Company , no less than twenty thousand chests of this dyeing drug are , on an average , brought annually into the market . A very consider- able quantity of indigo is also imported into Europe from Ame- rica and Egypt . It is not ...
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