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... seems quite unnecessary here to enlarge upon them . In the original work , however , the Staf- fordshire Coal - Mines were omitted ; and some of the details relating to the Copper - Mines were scarcely clear enough for the comprehension ...
... seems quite unnecessary here to enlarge upon them . In the original work , however , the Staf- fordshire Coal - Mines were omitted ; and some of the details relating to the Copper - Mines were scarcely clear enough for the comprehension ...
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... seems to lie in vast beds , or strata . One of these had been worked for more than a hundred years , when another was discovered below it , but separated by a bed of hardened clay , or soft stone , be- tween thirty and forty feet thick ...
... seems to lie in vast beds , or strata . One of these had been worked for more than a hundred years , when another was discovered below it , but separated by a bed of hardened clay , or soft stone , be- tween thirty and forty feet thick ...
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... seems remarkable , that all these places , though formed of salt , are very dry . There is one rivulet of water running through the mine , which is fresh at its source , but becomes saltish by running in the channel which it has worn in ...
... seems remarkable , that all these places , though formed of salt , are very dry . There is one rivulet of water running through the mine , which is fresh at its source , but becomes saltish by running in the channel which it has worn in ...
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... James ; the term Mine , in most cases , seems to intimate a place under ground ; but this is not the case at Gani , for there , what is called a Mine is of a quite different nature . 38 PERSONS EMPLOYED . Indeed , it is of all.
... James ; the term Mine , in most cases , seems to intimate a place under ground ; but this is not the case at Gani , for there , what is called a Mine is of a quite different nature . 38 PERSONS EMPLOYED . Indeed , it is of all.
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... seems to be impregnated with iron - ores ; and the earth among which diamonds are found is ferruginous to a considerable degree . The miners come to this bed of diamonds as soon as they have removed the common vege- table soil ...
... seems to be impregnated with iron - ores ; and the earth among which diamonds are found is ferruginous to a considerable degree . The miners come to this bed of diamonds as soon as they have removed the common vege- table soil ...
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adit AMUSING ancient baskets beds blast BLAST FURNACE bottom BRADLEY COAL-MINE Brazil brought bucket called CANNEL COAL carried caverns cinnabar clay cloth coal COLLIERIES coloured copper COPPER-MINES Cornwall Dannemora deep depth descend diamonds discovered dred dykes earth Edition eight employed England excavations fire Forest of Dean formed Fowey furnace gold gold-mines grains gunpowder half half-bound horses hundred feet Illustrations iron ISAAC TAYLOR James Kolyvan labour lumps Mam Tor mass metal mile Millstone grit MINERAL VEINS miners mines mode morocco mountains native nearly Newcastle obtained operation papa persons PERU Petersburgh pieces pillars piston places Potosi pounds Price principal produce province quantity quicksilver river rock roof Russia salt sand shaft side silex silver smelted soil sometimes sort Spain Spaniards steam-engine stones STORIES strata stratum stream substance suppose surface Sweden thick Thompson thousand tion traveller twelve various kinds washed wood workmen
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