"Metalliferous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Ceylon are but slightly metalliferous, and hitherto their veins and deposits have been but imperfectly examined. The first successful survey attempted by the Government was undertaken during the administration of Viscount Torrington, who, ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... to the mines that Dartmoor became a part of the Duchy, for the 'metalliferous' moors of Dartmoor and Cornwall had, on that account, long been Crown lands; and therefore, when Edward III created his eldest son Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, the Chase of Dartmoor, and the Castle and Manor of Lydford were granted to him with the estates ...
— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote |
