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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.