Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
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brass, and iron. Capital, four millions.
30. For a grand dispensary. Capital, three millions. 31. For erecting mills and purchasing lead mines. Capital, two millions. 32. For improving the art of making soap. 33. For a settlement on the island of Santa Cruz. 34. For sinking pits and smelting lead ore in Derbyshire. 35. For making glass bottles and other glass. 36. For a wheel for perpetual motion. Capital, one million. 37. For improving of gardens. 38. For insuring and increasing children's fortunes. 39. For entering and loading goods at the custom-house, and for negotiating business for merchants. 40. For carrying on a woollen manufacture in the north of England. 41. For importing walnut-trees from Virginia. Capital, two millions. 42. For making Manchester stuffs of thread and cotton. |
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