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PREFACE.

IN concluding the First Volume of the "Mining and Smelting Magazine," the Editor is conscious of many shortcomings. To a great extent these were unavoidable in the commencement of a periodical of this description, and only to be overcome by experience. He hopes henceforth to make the Magazine in every way worthy of the kind aid and liberal patronage he has received from almost all connected with mining and metallurgy, whose aid and patronage are most valuable.

LONDON, June, 1862,