CHIT-CHAT,
OR
SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS.
WITH SIXTEEN ENGRAVINGS.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "ALWAYS HAPPY," &c.
SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED.
LONDON:
JOHN HARRIS, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.
1831.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION.
THE LITTLE LIBRARY,
COMPRISING,
IN A SERIES OF SMALL VOLUMES,
A Familiar Introduction
TO VARIOUS BRANCHES
OF
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
I.
THE MINE.
By the late Rev. Isaac Taylor, of Ongar, Essex.
THIRD EDITION.
Illustrated with Sixteen Engravings, and a Mineralogical Table. Price 3s. 6d. neatly bound in cloth, square 16mo.
Extract from Contents: Ancient Coal Mine.—GoldMines.—Anglesea Mines.—Black Damp.—Black Lead—BlastFurnace.—Blasting Mines.—Boring for Coal.—BrazilDiamonds.—Bristol Stones.—Cannel Coal.—Captain of a Mine.—CarronFounderies.—Choke Damp.—Cinnabar.—Coining Tin.—Copper; itsvarious Mines—Sir H. Davy's Safety Lamp.—Descending into Minesof Copper, Coal, Iron, Salt, and Silver.—Diamonds.—FindingMines.—Draining Mines.—Dress for a Mine.—Explosion ofCoal.—Galena.—Gas.—Fullers' Earth.—Gold, in various parts of theWorld.—Lead.—Mercury.—History of Mines.—Mineral Cabinet.—Numbersof Mines in Cornwall.—Pactolus.—Phœnicians trading forTin.—Pig Iron.—Plumbago.—Quantities of Coal sent to London.—RailRoads.—Retorts.—Roasting Ore.—Smelting Furnace.—StampingMills.—Steam Engine.—Stream of Sparks, &c.
VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED.
II.
THE SHIP.
By the late Rev. Isaac Taylor.
Illustrated with Sixteen Engravings. Price 3s. 6d. neatly bound in cloth, square 16mo.
Extract from Contents: Noah's Ark.—Floats on theRhine.—Egyptian Pottery Float.—Indi