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... coalfield or of the sea coast , in which gas is not used for the lighting of the thoroughfares as well as for that of public and private buildings . The year 1830 witnessed the commencement of another great drain upon our coal - mines ...
... coalfield or of the sea coast , in which gas is not used for the lighting of the thoroughfares as well as for that of public and private buildings . The year 1830 witnessed the commencement of another great drain upon our coal - mines ...
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... coalfield are apt to acquire notions about the physical conditions which require to be corrected by visits to other districts , to make them capable of general appli- cation . Thus , whilst the total thickness of the coal- measures in ...
... coalfield are apt to acquire notions about the physical conditions which require to be corrected by visits to other districts , to make them capable of general appli- cation . Thus , whilst the total thickness of the coal- measures in ...
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... coalfield assuming a form which may be traced as on a map if the tract be surrounded by older forma- tions , but ... coalfields have been brought by the forces of elevation and depression may be studied in the geological maps ; but where ...
... coalfield assuming a form which may be traced as on a map if the tract be surrounded by older forma- tions , but ... coalfields have been brought by the forces of elevation and depression may be studied in the geological maps ; but where ...
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... coalfield . In addition to this general disturbance from the original - more or less horizontal - position in which the beds must have been deposited , they have been cut through by inclined planes of fissure , and so dislocated that ...
... coalfield . In addition to this general disturbance from the original - more or less horizontal - position in which the beds must have been deposited , they have been cut through by inclined planes of fissure , and so dislocated that ...
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... coalfield of Newcastle give it the pre - eminence , we may conve- niently start from that focus of activity . It must be premised that the limits of a coalfield are not to be confounded with the area coloured as " coal - measures " in a ...
... coalfield of Newcastle give it the pre - eminence , we may conve- niently start from that focus of activity . It must be premised that the limits of a coalfield are not to be confounded with the area coloured as " coal - measures " in a ...
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