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  • On this ground he placed a layer of branches and chopped wood, on which were piled some pieces of shistose pyrites, buttressed one against the other, the whole being covered with a thin layer of pyrites, previously reduced to the size of a nut.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • A few minutes after them, Cyrus Harding, Herbert, and Gideon Spilett, dragging the hurdle, went towards the vein of coals, where those shistose pyrites abound which are met with in the most recent transition soil, and of which Harding had already found a specimen.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • These shistose pyrites being composed principally of coal, flint, alumina, and sulphuret of iron — the latter in excess — it was necessary to separate the sulphuret of iron, and transform it into sulphate as rapidly as possible.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • These shistose pyrites being composed principally of coal, flint, alumina, and sulphuret of iron — the latter in excess — it was necessary to separate the sulphuret of iron, and transform it into sulphate as rapidly as possible.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • A few minutes after them, Cyrus Harding, Herbert, and Gideon Spilett, dragging the hurdle, went towards the vein of coals, where those shistose pyrites abound which are met with in the most recent transition soil, and of which Harding had already found a specimen.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • On this ground he placed a layer of branches and chopped wood, on which were piled some pieces of shistose pyrites, buttressed one against the other, the whole being covered with a thin layer of pyrites, previously reduced to the size of a nut.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • Uber gangs jgc* birgsdrten Transition clay slate Grau'wacke shistose Transition limestone Homhlend - slate,

    The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq. Thomas Cooper 1812

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