 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1845
...near the water's edge, and 'horizontal galleries may be driven every where at very slight expence, and so worked as to drain themselves, while the cars,...with coal and attached to each other, glide -down on a railway, so as to deliver their burthen into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam... | |
 | Archibald Prentice - 1849 - 217 pagina’s
...bituminous coal, commonly called the Pittsburg seam, breaking out in the river cliffs near the water's edge. Horizontal galleries may be driven everywhere at very...laden with coal and attached to each other, glide down on a railway, so as to deliver their burden into barges moon-el to the river's bank. The same seam... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1851 - 512 pagina’s
...over the river (see fig. 382.). Here the coal, 10 feet thick, is covered by carbonaceous shale (6), and this again by micaceous sandstone (c). Horizontal...laden with coal and attached to each other, glide down on a railway, so as to deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam is... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1852 - 512 pagina’s
...over the river (see fig. 382.). Here the coal, 10 feet thick, is covered by carbonaceous shale (6), and this again by micaceous sandstone (c). Horizontal...laden with coal and attached to each other, glide down on a railway, so as to deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam is... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1852 - 512 pagina’s
...over the river (see fig. 382.). Here the coal, 10 feet thick, is covered by carbonaceous shale (6), and this again by micaceous sandstone (c). Horizontal...expense, and so worked as to drain themselves, while the ears, laden with coal and attached to each other, glide down on a railway, so as to deliver their burden... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1865 - 383 pagina’s
...thick, commonly called the Pittsburg seam, breaking out in the steep cliff at the water's edge .... Horizontal galleries may be driven everywhere at very...laden with coal and attached to each other, glide down on a railway, so as to deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam is... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 522 pagina’s
...the main seam of bituminous coal, ten feet thick, breaks out in the steep cliff at the water's edge. Horizontal galleries may be driven everywhere at very...with coal, and attached to each other, glide down on a railway so as to deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam may... | |
 | DR. GEORGE HARTWIG - 1871
...coal, ten feet thick, breaks out in the steep cliff at the water's edge. Horizontal galleries maybe driven everywhere at very slight expense, and so worked...with coal, and attached to each other, glide down on a railway so as to deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam may... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 522 pagina’s
...coal, ten feet thick, breaks out in the steep cliff at the water's edge. Horizontal galleries maybe driven everywhere at very slight expense, and so worked...with coal, and attached to each other, glide down on a railway so as to deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam may... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1874 - 233 pagina’s
...feet thick, commonly called the Pittsburg seam, breaking out in the steep cliff at the water's edge. Horizontal galleries may be driven everywhere at very...with, coal and attached to each other, glide down on a railway, so as to deliver their burdens into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam... | |
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Horizontal galleries may be driven everywhere at very slight expense, and so worked as to drain themselves, while the cars, laden with coal and attached to each other, glide down on a railway, so as to deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's... 
