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DAUBCIssoSs TREArIsE ON HYDRAuLIcs, for tie
use of Engineers. Translated from the French, and
adapted 70 the English Units of Measure. BY Joseph
Bennett, Civil Eng ] vol. svo., cloth, ts.9s. Gf
LIT. Col. Burns NAVAL AND MILITANT TEcHxIcAI
DICTIONARY OF THE FREScn LANGUAGE In two parts,
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THE SIEGE OF BoNARsUSD, 1854, Translated from
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The CoSrRAcroR's MANUAL AND BuILpERs PRisK-
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THE LAW or FREEDoN AND BoSDAGE IN TINE uEi-
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WOODBURY. OS THE ARcH-Trcatise on the varieus
Elements of Stability in the well-proportioned Arch
With numerous Tables Of the Ultimate and Actual
Thrust. BY Capt d. p. Woodbury., U. 8. Corps .
Engineers vol. svo., cngravings, cloth, S2.So.
LETTERS on COLLEGE GOVERNMENT AND CoLL:sIArA
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RIFLES AND RIFLE PRAcrIcE-An Elementary Tree
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1860. BY Col. Chas. X. Gardner. vol Cloth 50
A COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN ORDNANCE AN Grs
SERY compiled for the of the Cadets Of me In.
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PRINCIPLES AND Practice OF ENBASKINs LABs.
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EvoLurIoSs OF THE LINE As PRAcrIcED Mt rns
AUSTRIAN INFANTRY AND ADOPTED IN 1853. Trsps-
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