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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Blowpipe, in Chemical and Mineral Analysis: Including a Systematic Arrangement of Simple Minerals, Adapted to Aid the Student in His Progress in Mineralogy, by Facilitating the Discovery of the Names of Species
Now, the Object of t e present work, is to furnish the means of overcoming this difficulty; that is to sa to int out a method whereb the mineral ca stu ent may be easily enable to discover t e name, and the place in a system, of any mineral he may happen to meet with. I shall presently show in what manner this is to be done but it is neces sary previous] to explain, how it is that the dif ficulty allude to originates.
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