METALS AND THEIR USES.
COPPER. This is a most valuable metal; though it will not vie with iron for utility or gold and silver for beauty, yet its uses are very varied, and could not be supplied by any other metal /Its name, copper, was given to it from ihe island of Kupros, or Cyprus, where u was first wprked. It . has been known from eartiest times, the brass so often mentioned in Scripture being only an ajloy M t with oilier metals. Thus we are told it was wrought by Tubal-Cain who was an instructor of every artificer in brass, and iron; and in Ezra there is mention of "two vessels of fine copper precious as gold." , It is a beaotilul metal, and is character* by lured colour and brilliance when polished. The ancients look advantage of tWf, to make mirrors of it; thus we read of tUq laver >of brass used in the tabernacle sevvice : being; made: of the women V lookingglasses. It hj; very flexible, and may easily be rolled out into sheets. Copper ore is ; a wire one-tenth; of an inch: ifiiiNb-ffitt bear Ho lbs. weight without bwftu*. •Cdfiper is not uncommonly found in a nalrtedrpurestate, 1 and b&m(ifuily crystallized' lit irer»^k , 6 forms. Near Lisbon a weijgutrig 28i7 tbi. ; .;ft' is nioit usually found as cdpper pyrites', which is a mixture oT cbjjper, sulohur, : and irpri. tius kind of common yellow eoppei 4 ore is very abundantly found in Cornwall and Anglesea-Hi is worked in large quantities at Swansea in South Wales. These mines supply much of Hecopperused in Europe; they have been worked only about 160 years.— Churchniah's M. P. Magazine.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 13, 20 August 1862, Page 22
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277METALS AND THEIR USES. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 13, 20 August 1862, Page 22
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