December 1815!. 



No. 212. 



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THE 



PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 

 AND JOURNAL: 



COMfREUENDlMS 



rt^, VARIOUS BRANCilES OF SCIENCE, 



■^ THE LIBERAL AND FINE ARTS» 



GEOLOGY, 



AGRICULTURE, 



MANUFACTURES ANIJ COMMERCE. 



NUMBER CCXIL 

 For DECEMBER 1815: 



CONTAINING TH?: TOLLOWING Elv'GRAVING BT PORTER: 



1 to Plate to illustrate Sir H.DAvy's Paper on the Fire-damp 

 - Coal-Mines, and on Methods of lighting the Mines so as to 

 vent its Explosion; and the Account given in the present j 

 - . rof Mr, Stephenson'.^ Safe-Liimp for Coal-Mines. 



BY ALEXANDER TILJLOCHy 



M.U.I.A.F.S.A. tDXN.'AND rEilTII, &C. 



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