On Coal at Home and Abroad: With Relation to Consumption, Cost, Demand, and Supply and Other Inquiries of Present Interest; Being Three Articles Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, with an Appendix |
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... seams , many of which have in consequence suffered great diminution . Vast deposits of excellent and highly available coal still remain , but a preference will continue to be given to the best and the cheapest beds ; and as we approach ...
... seams , many of which have in consequence suffered great diminution . Vast deposits of excellent and highly available coal still remain , but a preference will continue to be given to the best and the cheapest beds ; and as we approach ...
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... Seam . That seam is now exhausted above water level , and is known to depreciate below . If the extraction should increase like our own , and augment , as it is said now to do , by about five per cent . per annum , and should double ...
... Seam . That seam is now exhausted above water level , and is known to depreciate below . If the extraction should increase like our own , and augment , as it is said now to do , by about five per cent . per annum , and should double ...
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... seams of coal , and in the deep mines , as well as in the inner recesses of deep mines . But the skill is chiefly amongst the hewers , and the other kinds of workmen are decidedly wrong in magnifying the skill required by them , for ...
... seams of coal , and in the deep mines , as well as in the inner recesses of deep mines . But the skill is chiefly amongst the hewers , and the other kinds of workmen are decidedly wrong in magnifying the skill required by them , for ...
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... seams like those of Staffordshire , in ten yard or even ten feet seams of coal , there is plainly no serious obstacle to the use of coal - cutting machines . You have only to cut and bring down , and deliver at the pit's mouth . But in ...
... seams like those of Staffordshire , in ten yard or even ten feet seams of coal , there is plainly no serious obstacle to the use of coal - cutting machines . You have only to cut and bring down , and deliver at the pit's mouth . But in ...
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... seams , and no other person , will at once understand the difficulties to be overcome . A hewer in the worst faces ... seam , and then turning and squatting , and sidling and squeezing , and gasping and sweating , and picking and poking ...
... seams , and no other person , will at once understand the difficulties to be overcome . A hewer in the worst faces ... seam , and then turning and squatting , and sidling and squeezing , and gasping and sweating , and picking and poking ...
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