Excerpt from Practical Blowpipe Assaying IN publishing this small volume of Practical Blowpipe Assaying it is the wish of the Author to record the methods of assaying adopted by himself during eighteen years of foreign travel, in hopes that they will assist others who have to make examinations where complete assay offices and laboratories are not to be found. 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.