Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works.

Part 20

Chapter 20234 wordsPublic domain

The "Treasury" contains upwards of four hundred Engravings; so that it is not only a collection of "secrets worth knowing," but it is a book of pictures, as full of prints as a Christmas pudding is of plums.

It may be as well to mention that the "Treasury" holds many new games that have never before been printed in a book of this kind. The old games have been described afresh. Thus it is, altogether, a new book.

And now we take leave, wishing you many hours, and days, and weeks of enjoyment over these pages; and we hope that you may be as happy as this book is brimful of amusement.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_.

2. Images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break.

3. The words coeli, manoeuvre and manoeuvres uses an "oe" ligature in the original.

4. The fractional numbers are represented by a hyphen and a forward slash. For example, 3-1/2 represents three and a half.

5. The following misprints have been corrected: "umlimited" corrected to "unlimited" (page 67) "immerged" corrected to "immersed" (page 124) "shil ing" corrected to "shilling" (page 133) "where-ever" corrected to "wherever" (page 148) "sttll" corrected to "still" (page 149) "mattrasses" corrected to "mattresses" (page 156)

6. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation, have been retained.