The Story of American CoalsJ.B. Lippincott, 1896 - 405 Seiten |
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Allegheny Allegheny Mountains American coals amount anthracite coal Baltimore and Ohio basin beds bituminous coal blast blast furnaces boilers burning Canal carbonic acid cars cent CHAPTER charcoal chute Clearfield Clearfield County coal seam coal-fields coke combustion Company contained cost Delaware Delaware River depth drift drill dumped engine England English feet field fire fuel furnace gas coals gases hauled heat hole horses hydrogen ignition inches increased iron land Lehigh Lehigh Valley Railroad loaded locomotives manufacture miles miner mines Monongahela River mountains mules nearly opened operation ovens oxygen passing Pennsylvania Philadelphia pig iron Pittsburgh pounds produced railroad cars rails railway Reading Railroad region River road rock rods rope Schuylkill Schuylkill Canal seaboard semi-bituminous coals shaft smoke steam sulphur surface Susquehanna tide-water tion tonnage tons of coal transportation United Valley vegetable volatile matter wagons weight West Virginia Western wheel wood York
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Seite 33 - ... at the edge of a lake. A river of vast volume comes rolling from the interior, darkening the water for leagues with its slime and mud, and bearing with it to the open sea, reeds, and fern, and cones of the pine, and immense floats of leaves, and now and then some bulky tree, undermined and uprooted by the current. We near the coast, and now enter the opening of the stream. A scarce penetrable phalanx of reeds, that attain to the height and wellnigh the bulk of forest-trees, is ranged on either...
Seite 38 - This travelled soil is at last deposited upon the coast, where it forms most fertile countries. But the billows of the ocean agitate the loose materials upon the shore, and wear away the coast, with the endless repetitions of this act of power, or this imparted force. Thus the continent of our earth, sapped in its foundation, is carried away into the deep, and sunk again at the bottom of the sea, from whence it had originated. We are thus led to see a circulation in the matter of this globe, and...
Seite 179 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Seite 176 - ... ignited in the wastes, then the whole mine is instantly illuminated with the most brilliant lightning — the expanded fluid drives before it a roaring whirlwind of flaming air, which tears up every thing in its progress, scorching some of the miners to a cinder, burying others under enormous heaps of ruins shaken from the roof, and, thundering to the shafts, wastes its volcanic fury in a discharge of thick clouds of coal dust, stones, timber, and not unfrequently limbs of men and horses.
Seite 46 - Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. 21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Seite 47 - The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
Seite 34 - ... growth, and lost himself amid a forest of corn fifty feet in height ? The lesser vegetation of our own country, its reeds, mosses, and ferns, seem here as if viewed through a microscope ; the dwarfs have sprung up into giants, and yet there appears to be no proportional increase in size among what are unequivocally its trees. Yonder is a group of what seem to be pines — tall and bulky...
Seite 35 - ... the upper boughs of the tangled forest beyond, not a ray penetrates the more than twilight gloom that broods over the marshy platform below. The rank steam of decaying vegetation forms a thick blue haze, that partially obscures the underwood. Deadly lakes of Carbonic acid gas have accumulated in the hollows ; there is...
Seite 36 - ... that has risen to the surface in pursuit of its prey, or when a sudden breeze stirs the hot air, and shakes the fronds of the giant ferns, or the catkins of the reeds. The wide continent before us is a continent devoid of animal life, save that its pools and rivers abound in fish and mollusca, and that millions and tens of millions of the infusory tribes swarm in the bogs and marshes.
Seite 70 - It extends from the Atlantic Ocean, on the east, to the Pacific Ocean, on the west...