IMPORTANT WORK!
NOW IN THE COURSE OF PUBLICATION,
A DICTIONARY OF
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A DICTIONARY OF


ARTS. MANUFACTURES AND MINES.
Containing clear exposition of their principles


and practice. By ANDREW URE, NJ. D.,FR.s,
M G. s., M. A. S. Lond., Mem. Acad., N S.


Philad., S. Phi. Soc. n. Gem. Hanov. Multi,


&c. &c. &c.


Illustrated Uith one thousand t,co hundred and


forty-one Engravings.


This is unquestionaby the most popular work
of the kind ever published, and book most ad-
mirably adapted to the wants of all classes of the
community The following are the important OBJ
ects which the learned author endeavors to ac-
complish:


1st. To instruct the Manufacturer, Metallur-
gist and Tradesman, in the principles of their res
pective processes, SO as to render them in reality,
the masters of their business and, to emancipate
them from state of bondage to such as are too
commonly governed by blind prejudice and vi
cious routine.


2dly. To afford Merchants, Brokers, Drysalt-
res, Druggists, and Officers of the Revenue, cha
racterstic descriptions of the commodities which
pass through their hands


3dly. By exhibiting some of the finest develop
ments of Chemistry and Physics, to lay open an
excellent practical school to Students of these
kindred sciences


4thly. To teach Capitalists, who may be desir-
Gus of placing their funds in some productive
branch of industry, to select, judiciously, among
plausible claimants.


5thly. To enable gentlemen of the law to be-
come we'll acquainted with the nature of those
patent schemes which are so apt to give rise to
litigation.


6thly To present to Legislators such clear
exposition of the staple manufactures, as may dis
suade them from enacting laws which obstruct
industry to cherish one branch of it, to the injury
of many others.


And, lastly, to give the general reader, intent
chiefly on Intellectual Cuitivation, views of many
of the noblest ACHIEVEMENTS of Science, in efeclg
those grand transformations of matter to which
Great Britain and the United States owe their
paramount wealth, rank, and power, among the
nations of the earth.


The latest statistics of every important object
of Manufacture, are given from the best, and usu-
ally, from official authority, at the end Of each
article.


The work will be printed from the second Lon
don edition, which sells for Sl2 copy. 1t will
be put on good paper, in new BREWER type, and
will make about 400 6go. pages. 1t will be is
sued in twenty-one semi-monthly numbers, Gin
covers,) at 20 cents each, payable on delivery.
AgeTo any person sending as five dollars at
one time, in advance, we will forward the num-
bers, by mail, post pdld, as soon as they come
from the press.


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nifty, as we can put the work to them, on terms
extraordinarily favorable. In every manufactuI-
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ed States and Canada, subscribers NAV be obtain
ed with the greatest facility Address, post paid
lie Roy Sunderland, l26 Fulton-street, New
York


$40 every editor who gives this advertise
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der, one copy of the whole work, provided the
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York Watchman, New York


L. G. Hammond, is sole agent for the work in
this city, Troy, Lansingburgh, Schenectady and