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As it is very difficult to give a description of them, and still more so for the reader to comprehend them without figures, we refer to the Penny Cyclopaedia, art. " Sowing-machine, " for an account of the more important. ] MANGANESE'. THAT the art of glass-making may have arisen from an acci- dent, such as that mentioned by Pliny 2, I am ready to admit; but by what accident were artists made acquainted with the use of manganese, a mineral the outward appearance of which seems to announce nothi...ng that could be useful to the glass- maker ? It is not found in such abundance as to allow us to suppose that it naturally presented itself; nor do we know that any older application of it may have induced the an- cients to employ and examine it in such a manner that the present use of it might be accidentally discovered. In gene- ral, it resembles some kinds of iron-stone, which it was con- sidered to be till a very late period. That iron, however, colours glass must have been very early remarked ; and there- fore it could occur to no one to employ manganese for de- priving frit 3 of its colour.
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