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CONTENTS'. 



THE PRINTING-PRESS. 



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CHAP. I. 1. The improvement of the art not promoted by men 

 of letters and science. 2. General signification of printing. 3. 

 Printing by models in relief. 4. Method of engraving the 

 block. 5. Antiquity of this art. 6. Invention of movable type. 

 7. Use of movable types for printing successive books or parts 

 of a book. 8. Process of printing. 9. Composition. 10. 

 Quadrats. 11. Use of the chase. 12. Imposing. 13. Reading 

 and correcting. 14. Successive operations in printing. 15. 

 Inking. 16. Inking-rollers. 17. Stanhope press. 18. Printing- 

 machines. 19. General description of them. 20. Single 

 printing-machines. 21. Double printing-machines. 22. Per- 

 spective view and description of Applegath and Cowper's double 

 printing-machine .1 



CHAP. II. 23. Machine of The Times of 1814. 24. Improvement 

 of this. 25. Present printing machine of The Times. 26. 

 Marinoni's newspaper printing machine. 27. Marinoni's book- 

 printing machine. 28. Newspapers. 29. Reporters. ; 30. 

 Court newsman. 31. Foreign correspondent. 32. Newspaper 

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THE CRUST OF THE EARTH, 

 OR, FIRST NOTIONS OF GEOLOGY. 



CHAP. I. 1. The earth, a subject of long-continued observation and 

 investigation. 2. Mathematical geography. 3. Physical geo- 

 graphy. 4. Phenomena of the oceans and seas included in it. 

 5. Hydrology, meteorology, and climatology. 6. Political 

 geography. 7. General subject of geography. 8. Geology. 

 9. Original fluidity of the eai-th inferred from its spheroidal 

 form. 10. This form ascertained by observation and measure- 

 ment. 11. The solid crust was formed while the earth was in a 

 state of rotation. 12. Increase of temperature from surface 

 downwards. 13. Within the crust the earth still in a state of 



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