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Essays concerning iron and steel: : the first, containing observations on American sand-iron: the second, observations, founded on experiments, on common iron-ore ... on the sort of iron proper to be converted into good steel, and the method of refining that bar-steel by fusion, so as to render it fit for the more curious purposes : With an account of Mr. Reaumur's method of softening cast-iron : and an appendix discovering a more perfect method of charring pit-coal, so as to render it a proper succedaneum for charred wood-coal