The industrial resources of Ireland / By Robert Kane.

  • Robert John Kane
Date:
1845
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The industrial resources of Ireland / By Robert Kane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ps Pasture and tillage, 300. People, occupations of the, 250. Pipeclay, localities of, 231. Plants, composition of, 260. ashes of, 276. mode of growth of, 259. Pollough coal, 27. Power, cost of steam, 54. value of the unit of, 46. evaporative of fuels, 47, 50. water of Ireland, 71. of the Shannon, 83. of the Bann, 85. cost of, 108. cost of, on railways, 374. Poncelet’s wheel, 89. Porcelain clay, localities of, 230. nature of, 171. Pottery, clays adapted for, 232. Potatoes, composition of, 276. 317. nutriment in, 303. Potato husbandry in Ireland, 302. starch, making of, 316. residues, economy of, 319. Population, not excessive, 312. Prices of fuel, 53. Pressure, water engines by, 90. Practical education, importance of, 401, 412. Produce of Ireland, 255. Puddling of iron, 155. Public works, employment by, 346. grants, profit on, 349. Pyrites of the coal fields, 26. of copper, 182. iron, of Wicklow and Tip- perary, 224, 227. oxidizable, 228. Q. Quartz rock, localities of, 175. sand of Donegal, 238. { | 435. R. Rain, annual quantity of, 72. Railways in Ireland, 363. actual traffic on, 364, proposed, 371. report of Commissioners on, 365. atmospheric, nature of the, 373. management of, 381. necessity of control for, 378. cost of power on, 374. Railway, atmospheric, to Dalkey, Reaction water mill,£93. Reservoirs of water power, 96. on the Upper Bann, 98. at Greenock, 102. for tide mills, 112. Relations of agriculture to manu- factures, 250. Reclaiming of bogs, 281. Report of Railway Commission- ers, 365. Ringabella lead mine, 209. Rivers, navigable, 351. catchment basins of, 78. Roads, making of, beneficial, 345. profitable outlay on, 348. Connaught, effects of, 346. Highland, effects of, 349. Rover coal, 24. Rooskey, water power at, 84. Ross, copper mine, 198. Roscommon, clays of, 232. Rotation of crops, 295. Rushes coal, 27. S. Sand for industrial uses, 238. shelly and coral as manure, 286. Sandstone of the coal fields, 9.