 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 344 pagina’s
...which the reader will see (a, Pi. VI.) the coal, ten feet thick, covered by carbonaceous shale (Z>), and this again by micaceous sandstone (c). Horizontal...with coal and attached to each other, glide down, as shown in the plate, on a railway, so as to deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1845 - 788 pagina’s
...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,...other, glide -down on a railway, so as to deliver their burthen into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam is seen nt a distance on the right bank,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 720 pagina’s
...this again by micaceous sandstone(c). Horizontal galleries may be driven everywhere at very slight i i expense, and so worked as to drain themselves, while...with coal and attached to each other, glide down, as shown in the plate, on a railway, so as to deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's... | |
 | Archibald Prentice - 1849 - 268 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...railway, so as to deliver their burden into barges moon-el to the river's bank. The same seam is seen at a distance, on the right bank, and may be followed... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1851 - 602 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...deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam is seen at a distance, on the right bank (at a\ and may be followed the whole way... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1852 - 570 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...deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam is seen at a distance, on the right bank (at a), and may be followed the whole... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1852 - 578 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... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - 304 pagina’s
...which the reader will see (a, Pl. VI.) the coal, ten feet thick, covered by carbonaceous shale (6), and this again by micaceous sandstone (c). Horizontal...with coal and attached to each other, glide down, as shown in the plate, on a railway, so as to deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1865 - 388 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...deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam is seen at a distance, on the right bank, and may be followed the whole way to... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 612 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...deliver their burden into barges moored to the river's bank. The same seam may be followed the whole way to Pittsburg, fifty miles distant. Being AMERICAN... | |
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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... 
