or, alphabetical explanation of technical terms : containing, among other matter, a succinct account of the different systems of fortification, tactics, & c. : also the various french phrases and words that have an immediate, or relative, connection with the british service, or may tend to give general information on military subjects in either language

in which are explained the terms of the principal sciences that are necessary for the information of an officer

in which is exhibited an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the science; and the theories of light, combustion and formation of coal; with descriptions of the most approved apparatus for generating, collecting and distributing, coal-gas for illuminating purposes

with an index : corrected to 27th December

or a familiar digest of the recent discoveries of Liebeg, Davy, and other celebrated writers on vegetable chemistry; showing how the results of English tillage might be greatly augmented

examined and described under the authority of the master general and board of ordnance