In course of publication, 



THE LITTLE LIBRARY, ^ ^ ' 



Comprising, in a Series of small Volumes, uniformly printed, 

 A FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION TO VARIOUS BRANCHES 



OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



I. 



THE MINE ; by the late Rev. Isaac Taylor, of Ongar. Fourth 

 Edition. Illustrated with 16 Engravings, and a Mineralogical Table. 

 Price 3s. 6d. neatly bound in coloured cloth, lettered. Square 16mo. 

 Extract from the 



CONTENTS.— Ancient Coal Mine.— Gold Mines.— Anglesea Mines.— Black 

 Damp. — Black Lead. — Blast Furnace. — Blasting Mines. — Boring for Coal. — 

 Brazil Diamonds. — Bristol Stones. — Cannel Coal. — Captain of a Mine. — Car- 

 ron Founderies. — Choke Damp. — Cinnabar. — Coining Tin. — Copper; its various 

 Mines. — Sir H.Davy's Safety Lamp. — Descending into Mines of Copper, Coal, 

 Iron, Salt, and Silver. — Diamonds. — Finding Mines. — Draining Mines. — Dress 

 for a Mine. — Explosion of Coal, Galena, Gas. — Fuller's Earth. — Gold in various 

 parts of the World. — Lead. — Mercury. — History of Mines. — Mineral Cabinet. — 

 Mines in Cornwall. — Pactolus. — Phcenicians trading for Tin. — Pig Iron. — Pluni- 

 bago. — Quantities of Coal sent to London. — Rail Roads. — Retorts. — Roasting Ore. 

 —Smelting Furnace.— Stamping Mills. — Steam Engine. — Stream of Sparks.— 

 Sulphur. — "Women Coal Bearers. — Zinc, &c. &c. 



II. 



THE SHIP. By the late Rev. Isaac Taylor, of Ongar, Essex, 

 Author of Scenes in Europe," ''The Mine," &c. Illustrated with 

 Sixteen Engravings on Steel. Price 3s. 6d. neatly bound in cloth, 

 lettered, square 16mo. 



The following is a brief enumeration of the subjects noticed in 

 this book : — 



Noah's Ark. — Floats on the Rhine. — Egyptian Pottery Float. — Indian Paddle 

 Canoes. — Boats, Barges, and Lighters. — Sailing Canoes. — Chinese Junks. — The 

 Nautilus. — Ancient Vessels. — Roman Galleys. — British Coracles. — C£esar's Fleet. 

 — A Fire Ship.— A Cutter. — A Gun-boat. — A Bomb-ketch. — A Frigate. — A 

 Man-of-War, with its Long boat, Barge, Pinnace, Cutter, and Yawl. — A Turkish 

 Galley. — A Venetian Galleas. — A French Galley. — A Xebec, Polacre, and Tartan. 

 — A Snow, Bilander, Schooner, and Dogger. — A Sloop, Hoy, and Smack. — An 

 East-Indiaman. — A Portuguese Carrack. — A Spanish Galleon. — ^A Canal Boat. 

 — A Wherry, and Pleasure Boat Lord Mayor's State Barge. — Venetian Gon- 

 dola. — The Doge's Bucentaur. — A Man-of-War, with descriptive references. — A 

 Section of a Man-of-War. — The Dock Yard. — The Ship Launch. 



