 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1799 - 520 pages
...could learn, is never found in any matrix or vein, but always in small grains, nearly in a pure state, from the size of a pin's head, to that of a pea ;...scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state, it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko, " gold powder." It is, however, extremely... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1807 - 594 pages
...could learn, is never found in any matrix or vein, but always in small grains, nearly in a pure state, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko, " gold powder." It is, however, extremely... | |
 | William Nicholson - Chemistry - 1808 - 900 pages
...substances arc interspersed among their texture, easilydistinginMied by i lens. The most abundant is from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, opake, with a little lustre like that of enamel, of a gray colour sometime? inclining to brown, and... | |
 | 1811 - 854 pages
...days he died. The upper part of the skull was found upon dissection to have many deep holes in it, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, produced, as it seemed, by warty cartilaginous substances growing from the tunica arachnoidia, which... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1811 - 860 pages
...days he died. The upper part of the skull was found upon dissection to have many deep holes in it, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, produced, г* it seemed, by_warty cartilaginous substances growing fro m the tunica arachnoidia, which... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 374 pages
...could learn, is never found in any matrix or vein, but always in small grains, nearly in a pure state, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state, it is called by the Mandingoes aanoo munko, (gold powder.) It is, however, extremely... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...Niger. The gold of Manding is never found in a mine, but always in small grains, nearly in a pure state, from the size of a pin's head, to that of a pea, scattered through a large body of sand or clay. As soon 'as their harvest is over, the Mandingo negroes go in search of gold dust. Some gather up the... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1816 - 576 pages
...could learn, is never found in any matrix or vein, but always in small grains, nearly in a pure state, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called fay the Mandingoes s<z«o0 munko," gold powder." It is, however, extremely... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...Niger. The gold of Manding is never found in a mine, but always in small grains, nearly in a pure state, from the size of a pin's head, to that of a pea, scattered through a large body of sand or clay. As soon as their harvest is over the Mandingo negroes go in search of gold dust. Some gather up the... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...Mantling is never found in any vein, but jdways-m' small grains, nearly in a pure state, from the si?e pf a pin's head to that of a pea, scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the natives, gold-powder. When the streams and torrents of autumn have... | |
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... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, scattered through a large body of sand or clay, and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko (gold powder). 
