 ... found willing to credit the delusive tale of finding good coal by going deeper. But the warning must be given, though it be disregarded ; and from all the natural exhibitions on the coast, as well as from the result of every experiment inland, I am...  Transactions - Page 213by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers - 1857Full view - About this book
 | John Phillips - Geology - 1829 - 614 pages
...often been preferred to the legitimate deductions of science, and even yet persons will perhaps he found willing to credit the delusive tale of finding...seams of coal more than eighteen inches or two feet in thickness, in any part of the strata above the upper lias or alum shale, is entirely unsupported by... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - Coal mines and mining - 1878 - 196 pages
...often been preferred to the legitimate deductions of science, and even yet persons will, perhaps, be willing to credit the delusive tale of finding good...that any hope of discovering seams of coal more than 18 in. or 2 ft. in thickness, in any part of the strata above the upper lias or alum shale, is entirely... | |
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