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I Porks Published BY ARCH d . CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH. 1. MINERALOGICAL TRAVELS in a Tour through different Earls of the Mainland of Scotland ; with Dissertations upon Peat and Kelp. In Two volumes, illustrated with Maps and Plates. By Robert Jameson, F. It. S. E. &c. 4to. L. 1, 16s. boards. 2. An OUTLINE of the MINERALOGY of the SHETLAND ISLANDS, and of the ISLAND of ARRAN. Illustrated with Cop perplates. With an Appendix, containing Observations on Peat, Kelp, and Coal- By Robert Jameson, F. It. S. E. &c. 8vo. 5s. boards. 3 NEW THEORY of the FORMATION of VEINS, with its APPLICATION to the ART of WORKING MINES. By Abraham Gottlob Wf.rner, Professor of Mineralogy, &c. Trans lated from the German. To which is added an Appendix, contain ing Notes, illustrative of the subject. By Charles Andeison, M. D. 8vo. 9s- boards. The number, variety, and importance of the Mines m Germany, have created, in that part of the Continent, nn interest which is quite unknown in this country. Scientific men have there directed their attention to discover the manner in which ores and minerals occur in the bowels of the earth ; and, by reducing to fixed principles what they have been able to discover, they have, by their investigations, afforded much information, tending to shorten the labours of the practical miner, and assisting him to solve many doubts and difficulties which attend his subter ranean operations. This work of the celebrated professor of Kreyberg, deserves to rank among the first of those scientific aids to the practice of mining. The present edition contains several additions to the original, which he gave to Mr Daubuisson, who inserted them in his French translation of the work. 4. A MINERALOGICAL DESCRIPTION of the ENVIRONS of LANDECK, in the County of Glatz ; with a Mineralogical Map. By Leopold Von Bucii. Translated from the French, with Notes by Charles Anderson, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Sur geons,