| Sherman Day - 1843 - 754 pagina’s
...run. This run is entirely paved in the bottom with fine stone coal, and the hill on the south side of it is a rock of the finest coal I ever saw. I burned about a bushel of it on my fire. " 23. Sunday. Continued working on the road. Had sermon to-day at 10 A. M : at noon... | |
| Geological Survey of Pennsylvania - 1884 - 316 pagina’s
...run. This run is entirely paved in the bottom with fine stone coal, and the hill on the south side of it is a rock of the finest coal I ever saw. I burnt about a bushel of it on my fire."* His notes of the following day inform us that this was at... | |
| J. Sutton Wall - 1884 - 322 pagina’s
...run. This run is entirely paved in the bottom with fine stone coal, and the hill on the south side of it is a rock of the finest coal I ever saw. I burnt about a bushel of it on my fire."* His notes of the following day inform us that this was at... | |
| John Newton Boucher - 1906 - 774 pagina’s
...on Saturday the 22nd, they moved forward, going westward. On Saturday camp moved two miles to Cole run. This run is entirely paved in the bottom with...burned about a bushel of this sea coal on my fire." Coal was formerly mined in northern England alone, and was carried to London by water, and was called... | |
| James Moore Swank - 1908 - 378 pagina’s
...camp moved two miles to Coal run. This run is entirely paved in the bottom with fine stone coal, and the hill on the south of it is a rock of the finest coal I ever saw. I burned about a bushel of it on my fire." The Coal run referred to was apparently about two miles distant from the present town... | |
| Esther Fraser Kirkpatrick - 1927 - 224 pagina’s
...camp moved two miles to Coal Run. This run is entirely paved on the bottom with fine stove coal, and the hill on the south of it is a rock of the finest coal I ever saw. I burned about a bushel of it on my fire." (42) The Reverend Beatty in his Journal of 1766 v/rites that he went up to Coal Hill... | |
| 838 pagina’s
...reason. It was in this way distinguished from Charcoal. All coal was then designated as "sea coal." Cole Run is entirely paved in the bottom with stone coal,...hill on the south of it is a rock of the finest coal. A coal seam near Pittsburgh took fire in 1765; and is said to have burned steadily for sixteen years.... | |
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