Excerpt from The Metallurgy of Lead: Including Desilverization and Cupellation IT was intended that this volume should contain the Metallurgy Of Lead, Silver, and Gold; but it has been found impossible to treat those important subjects in a sufficiently detailed and com prehensive manner in a single volume without making it so thick and heavy as to be inconvenient. It has, therefore, been decided to restrict this volume to the Metallurgy Of Lead, including the processes of Desilverization and Cupellation. The Author does not regret the change in the plan of publication, because the delay in publishing the Metallurgy of Silver and Gold will, there is reason to hope, enable him to procure valuable and additional information from California and elsewhere on those subjects for the next volume, of which a considerable portion is already in print. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.