HAVE JUST PUBLISHED A NEW EDITION, GREATLY ENLARGED, OF DR. URE'S Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, CONTAINING A CLEAR EXPOSITION OF THEIR PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. ILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTEEN HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD. A New Edition. Corrected and greatly enlarged. Many of the Articles entirely re-written, and 400 new Cuts added. Two Large Volumes, 8vo., Cloth. Price, $5; Sheep, $6. **This new edition of URE'S DICTIONARY, is reprinted entire, page for page with the new and greatly enlarged edition just published in England. Although this work is enlarged to two volumes, comprising in all 2,116 pages, the price is not increased beyond the price of the former one-Five Dollars. The following quotation from the author's preface illustrates the leading features of this publication: "I have embodied in this work the results of my long experience as a Professor of Practical Science. Since the year 1805, when I entered at an early age upon the arduous task of conducting the schools of chemistry and manufactures in the Andersonian Institution, up to the present day, I have been assiduously engaged in the study and improvement of most of the chemical and many of the mechanical arts. Consulted professionally by the proprietors of factories, workshops, and mines of various descriptions, both in this country and abroad, concerning derangements in their operations, or defects in their products, I have enjoyed peculiar opportunities of becoming acquainted with their minutest details, and have frequently had the good fortune to rectify what was amiss or to supply what was wanting. Of the stores of information thus acquired, I have availed myself on the present occasion; careful, meanwhile, to neglect no means of knowledge which my extensive intercourse with foreign nations affords. I therefore humbly hope that this work will prove a valuable contribution to the literature of science, serving In the first place to instruct the Manufacturer, Metallurgist, and Tradesman in the principles of their respective processes, so as to render them, in reality, the masters of their business; and to emancipate them from a state of bondage to such as are too commonly governed by a blind prejudice and a vicious routine. Secondly. To afford Merchants, Brokers, Drysalters, Druggists, and Officers of the Revenue, characteristic descriptions of the commodities which pass through their hands. Thirdly. By exhibiting some of the finest developments of Chemistry and Physics, to lay open an excellent practical school to students of these kindred sciences. Fourthly. To teach capitalists who may be desirous of placing their funds in some productive branch of industry, to select judiciously among plausible claimants. Fifthly. 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