Identifier: quarterlyjournal31866lond (find matches)
Title: The quarterly journal of science
Year: 1864 (1860s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: London: John Churchill and Sons
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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d our survey of the New Iron-fields ofEngland through a tract of country ranging from north to southfor a distance of 200 miles. The survey might be still furtherextended if we included the Wiltshire ores, which are of limitedextent, and belong to a still higher geological horizon. Enoughhas probably been stated to show the enormous extent of ourresources in this mineral, which is sufficiently abundant to use upthe whole of our available coal for its conversion into metaUic iron.As regards the quality of the iron produced, it is confessedly inferiorto that derived from the clay iron-stones and black bands of thecoal measures, still more to that from the haematites of Ulverstoneand Furness; but for ordinary purposes and for mixing with thefiner classes, it is of great value. It is, moreover, supplying theenormous demand of the present generation ; and, looking to thefuture, there can be no question that the Middlesborough district isdestined to have no rival in any part of the world. i
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1866.) ( 333 ) III. ON THE HABITS AND CONDITION OF THETWO EAKLIEST KNOWN KACES OF MEN. . By W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A. Oxon, F.O.S. In tins age of steam-engines, and electric-telegraphs, and printing-presses, surrounded by all the appliances of modern civilization, withthe hum and stir of commerce in our ears, and with our eyesaccustomed to the rich cultivated fields, or the densely-populatedtowns, we find it very hard to realize to ourselves the England orthe Europe of 500 years ago, when all these things were not, andwhen the habits of life which these tilings have naturally developed,were altogether difierent. So difiicult is it, that with all the oldchronicles at hand to fiu-nish a true picture of the life and modes ofthought of those times. Lord Macaulay is the only English historianwho has attempted to give them even in outline. Still further backthe materials for the social history of Western Europe grow moreand more scant, and anterior to the time when the Eomans con-quered Gaul an

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