 | Andrew Ure - 1844 - 630 Seiten
...innermost of the four rooms, two men are seated at a large table, sorlinz and dressing the plumbago, who are locked in while at work, and watched by the...room, who is armed with two loaded blunderbusses. Such formidable apparatus of security is deemed requisite to check the pilfering spirit of the Cumberland... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 684 Seiten
...innermost of the four rooms two men are seated at a large table, sorting and dressing the plumbago, who are locked in while at work, and watched by the...room, who is armed with two loaded blunderbusses. In some years the net produce of the six weeks' annual working of the mine has, it is said, amounted... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1853 - 1034 Seiten
...innermost of the four rooms, two men are seated at a large table sorting and dressing the plumhago, who are locked in while at work, and watched by the...room, who is armed with two loaded blunderbusses. Such formidable apparatus of security is deemed requisite to check the pilfering spirit of the Cumberland... | |
 | J.D. Dana - 1855 - 440 Seiten
...called carburet of iron, but is not a chemical compound. It is infusible before the blowpipe, both alone and with reagents ; it is not acted upon by...mountaineers. In some years the net produce of the six weeks1 annual working of the mine, has amounted to £40,000. In the United States, graphite occurs... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 1008 Seiten
...In the innermost of the 4 rooms 2 men are seated at a large table sorting and dressing the plumbago, who are locked in while at work, and watched by the...steward from an adjoining room, who is armed with 2 loaded blunderbusses. Such formidable apparatus of security," says Dr. Ure, " is deemed requisite... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 Seiten
...In the innermost of the 4 rooms 2 men are seated at a large table sorting and dressing the plumbago, who are locked in while at work, and watched by the...steward from an adjoining room, who is armed with 2 loaded blunderbusses. Such formidable apparatus of security," says Dr. Ure, " is deemed requisite... | |
 | Henry White - 1867 - 120 Seiten
...In an inner room two men were seated at a table assorting and dressing the graphite. These men were locked in while at work, and watched by the steward from an adjoining room, who was armed with two loaded blunderbusses. These precautions attest the great value that was placed upon... | |
 | William Jones (F.S.A.) - 1868 - 360 Seiten
...the innermost of the four rooms two men are seated at a large table sorting and dressing the mineral, who are locked in while at work, and watched by the...room, who is armed with two loaded blunderbusses. Such formidable apparatus of security is deemed requisite to check the pilfering spirit of the Cumberland... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - 1876 - 458 Seiten
...(called also black lead) is found in crystalline rocks, especially in gneiss, mica slate and granulai limestone ; also in granite and argillite, and rarely...who is armed with two loaded blunderbusses. This is leemed necessary to check the pilfering spirit of the Cumberland mountaineers. In some years the net... | |
 | Alexander Watt - 1881 - 220 Seiten
...innermost of the four rooms two men are seated at a large table, sorting and dressing the plumbago, who are locked in while at work, and watched by the...steward from an adjoining room, who is armed with two blunderbusses. Such formidable apparatus of security is deemed requisite to check the pilfering spirit... | |
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The place is now protected by a strong building, and the workmen are required to put on a working dress in an apartment on going in and take it off on coming out. In an inner room two men are seated at a large table... 
