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Excerpt from A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing a Clear Exposition of Their Principles and Practick
Lastly, to give the General Reader, intent chie¿y on intellectual cultivation, a view of many of the noblest achievements of science, in effecting those grand transformations of matter to which Great Britain owes her paramount wealth, rank, and power among the kingdoms.
The latest statistics of every important object of manufacture is given from the best, and, usually, from official authority, at the end of each article.'
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