American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 12Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... wooden splints shaped to the part , and covered with soft pads , are employed . The leg having been placed in the above mentioned position , extension is made , if necessary ; and the under splint , covered with its pad , and having an ...
... wooden splints shaped to the part , and covered with soft pads , are employed . The leg having been placed in the above mentioned position , extension is made , if necessary ; and the under splint , covered with its pad , and having an ...
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... wood frame that fits on the board of the plain - table , and is gradu- ated with 360 degrees . This serves to show the direction of any line from the centre of the board , where there is a brass stud , or plate , let in ; and it also ...
... wood frame that fits on the board of the plain - table , and is gradu- ated with 360 degrees . This serves to show the direction of any line from the centre of the board , where there is a brass stud , or plate , let in ; and it also ...
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... wood frame ; while an assistant measures the distance , from the centre under the plain - table to the point observed . The surveyor draws a line on the paper , in the direction of the brass rule , from the exact centre of the plain ...
... wood frame ; while an assistant measures the distance , from the centre under the plain - table to the point observed . The surveyor draws a line on the paper , in the direction of the brass rule , from the exact centre of the plain ...
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... wood brought from the Bahama Isl- ands has usually passed under the name of Madeira wood ; this the Spaniards make great use of for building ships ; it is better adapted to this purpose than most sorts of wood yet known , being ve- ry ...
... wood brought from the Bahama Isl- ands has usually passed under the name of Madeira wood ; this the Spaniards make great use of for building ships ; it is better adapted to this purpose than most sorts of wood yet known , being ve- ry ...
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... woods and coppices about Carthagena in New Spain , flower- ing in July and August . TABES dorsales , in medicine , a distem- per which , according to a late author , is a particular species of a consumption , the proximate cause of ...
... woods and coppices about Carthagena in New Spain , flower- ing in July and August . TABES dorsales , in medicine , a distem- per which , according to a late author , is a particular species of a consumption , the proximate cause of ...
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