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pliblick library : especially, as even yet in England, their 
best steel can only be made out of Swedish iron. 
In 1783 I translated for my deceased friend Dr* Chu 
Taylor, the Dissertation or Thesis de Analyst Ferri^ of J<> 
Gadolin, published by Bergman, which first gave to the 
public, accurate experiments on the different products of 
iron and steel when treated in the moist way. 
Horne's essay on iron and steel, 12mo* is a book well 
spoken of, which I have never seem 
Reaumur's small treatise on the conversion of iron into 
steel : of which there is an English translation s but the ob- 
servations and theory, are for the most part superceded by 
the more accurate knowledge of the present day. 
The works I have actually consulted for the present oc? 
casion, are 
The mineralogica! treatise of Schlatter, by Hellot, in 3 
volso quarto, of which there are two copies in Philadeh 
phia. 
The mineralogical travels of Mr* Jars , in 3 vols. quarto 
The series of Essays of David Mushet $ Esq, of the 
Clyde iron works, 
Bergman's dissertation on the white ores of iron, and the 
essay deanalysi Jerri 
Tilloch's Philosophical magazine. 
The specifications of Mr . Cort , and Mr. John WiU 
Mnson y in the Repertory of arts, and Dr . Beddoes's account 
of Mr. Cort’s process. 
The essays of Dr. Collier on the steel furnace in the 
Manchester Transactions : and of Mr. Varley , in Dr. Til- 
loch’s Philosophical magazine. 
The detached essays on steel in Nicholson’s Journal: and 
The well-written articles in Aikins's Dictionary, and 
in Bee's new Encyclopaedia. Giving however my own 
view of the subject, and adding occasionally my own re- 
marks where I feel myself entitled to offer tlieni- 
