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Page 78
... fluid . See STEEL . CASEI DI CAVALLO , a peculiar kind of chee famous in Italy and many other places , made the milk of the female buffalo , that species bei as commonly tamed and kept there , as the ox a heifer with us . * CASE - KNIFE ...
... fluid . See STEEL . CASEI DI CAVALLO , a peculiar kind of chee famous in Italy and many other places , made the milk of the female buffalo , that species bei as commonly tamed and kept there , as the ox a heifer with us . * CASE - KNIFE ...
Page 99
... fluid mortar , which was called by the work men grout - work . The fhape or plan of these calles depended entirely on the caprice of the architects , or the form of the ground intended to be occupied : neither do they feem to have con ...
... fluid mortar , which was called by the work men grout - work . The fhape or plan of these calles depended entirely on the caprice of the architects , or the form of the ground intended to be occupied : neither do they feem to have con ...
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... fluid . By this is manifeft , how a cathartic haftens and the discharges by fool ; but where the of the ftimulus is great , all the appendages bowels , and all the vifcera in the abdomen , twiched ; by which a great deal will be dback ...
... fluid . By this is manifeft , how a cathartic haftens and the discharges by fool ; but where the of the ftimulus is great , all the appendages bowels , and all the vifcera in the abdomen , twiched ; by which a great deal will be dback ...
Page 236
... fluids ; a for this purpofe made choice of spirit of wine , ha ving before procured inflammable air by fendin the fame fteam through a red - hot tobacco pipe No fooner had the vapour of this fluid , howeve touched the red - hot copper ...
... fluids ; a for this purpofe made choice of spirit of wine , ha ving before procured inflammable air by fendin the fame fteam through a red - hot tobacco pipe No fooner had the vapour of this fluid , howeve touched the red - hot copper ...
Page 238
... fluid , when it is refolved into very pure dephlogifticated and in flammable air . The fame feparation may be ef- fected by merely heating iron in fixed air ; in which cafe the dephlogisticated part will unite to the iron , and the ...
... fluid , when it is refolved into very pure dephlogifticated and in flammable air . The fame feparation may be ef- fected by merely heating iron in fixed air ; in which cafe the dephlogisticated part will unite to the iron , and the ...
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Page 99 - ... fat. They breed once a-year, and bring forth at the latter end of the winter two or three young at a birth.
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