Statistics of Coal: The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Mineral Combustables Or Fossil Fuel, Including, Also, Notices and Localities of the Various Mineral Bituminous Substances Employed in Arts and Manufactures...J. W. Moore, 1848 - 754 էջ |
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Statistics of Coal: The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Mineral ... Richard Cowling Taylor Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1848 |
Statistics of Coal: The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Mineral ... Richard Cowling Taylor Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1848 |
Statistics of Coal: The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Mineral ... Richard Cowling Taylor Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1848 |
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Էջ 51 - WE do therefore hereby farther ordain, that from and after the Date hereof, no Mill or other Engine for Slitting or Rolling of Iron, or any Plating Forge to work with a Tilt-Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel...
Էջ 204 - Company, and their successors, the sole trade and commerce of all those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks and sounds, in whatsoever latitude they shall be, that lie within the entrance of the straits commonly called Hudson's Straits, together with all the lands and territories upon the countries, coasts, and confines of the seas, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks, and sounds aforesaid, that are not already actually possessed by or granted to any of our subjects, or possessed by the subjects of...
Էջ 362 - Commissioners appointed to inquire into the nature and extent of the several bogs in Ireland, and the practicability of draining and cultivating them : ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 28th April, 1814, p.
Էջ liv - JOHNSON.— A REPORT TO THE NAVY DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON AMERICAN COALS : Applicable to Steam Navigation and to other purposes.
Էջ 28 - Apalachian mountains, being in fact the end or termination only of the great ridges passing through the continent. European geographers, however, extended the name northwardly as far as the mountains extended ; some giving it, after their separation into different ridges, to the Blue Ridge, others to the North Mountain, others to the Alleghany, others to the Laurel Ridge, as may be seen by their different maps.
Էջ xxxix - Since the invention of the steam engine, coal has hecome of the highest importance as a moving power ; and no nation, however favorably situated in other respects, not plentifully supplied with this mineral, need hope to rival those that are. in most branches of manufacturing industry.
Էջ 34 - N. — is farther south than any region in which this ancient fossil Flora had previously been studied, whether in Europe or North America; and it affords, therefore, a new proof of the wide extension of a uniform Flora in the carboniferous epoch. Mr. Lyell — adverting to the opinion recently adopted by several able botanists, that the climate of the coal period was remarkable for its moisture, equability, and freedom from cold, rather than the intensity of its tropical heat — stated that this...
Էջ 220 - Brazos and the San Andres, down which stream it may without difficulty be transported at high water. Near the city of Austin, on the eastern border of the Colorado, is a peak, called Mount Bonnell, overlooking Austin, and having a fall of seven hundred feet perpendicular to the bed of the Colorado. This and other hills, although not scientifically examined, are known to contain beds of anthracite coal.
Էջ 219 - In the summer months a spring occurs, near the centre of the lake, from which an oily liquid, (probably petroleum,) continually boils up, from the bottom. This liquid gradually hardens, on exposure to the air, and forms a black pitchy substance, similar to that which forms the sides of the lake. It is said to resemble, precisely, the bitumen of Trinidad...
Էջ lxv - ... suffocation. The ventilating currents, suddenly arrested by this perturbation, are now much more difficult to re-establish, because the doors which served to regulate them are partly destroyed ; the fires are extinguished, and often, even the machines fixed at the mouths of the shafts, to regulate the currents, are damaged and displaced, to such an extent that it becomes impossible to convey any help to the bottom of the works.