| Robert Bakewell - 1833 - 604 páginas
...Reynolds, travelling to see the last expiring English furnace, before he emigrated to distant regions.* Fortunately, however, we have in South Wales, adjoining the Bristol Channel, an almost exhanstless supply of coal and ironstone, which are yet nearly unwrought. It has been stated in the... | |
| George Browning (of London.) - 1834 - 702 páginas
...are sufficient to meet the present demand for 2000 years. The passage is as follows, " Fortunately we have in South Wales, adjoining the Bristol Channel, an almost exhaustless supply of coal, and iron stone, which are as yet nearly unwrought. It has been stated, that this coal field extends over... | |
| John Holland - 1835 - 514 páginas
...exhausted. "Fortunately, however," Mr. Bakewell adds, "we have in South Wales, adjoining the British Channel, an almost exhaustless supply of coal and...which are yet nearly unwrought. It has been stated that this coal-field extends over about 1200 square miles, and that there are twenty-three beds of... | |
| 1835 - 642 páginas
...gentleman consoles us with the following calculation. "' We have in South Wales, adjoining the British Channel, an almost exhaustless supply of coal and...which are yet nearly unwrought. It has been stated that this coal-field extends over about 1200 square miles, and that there are twenty-three beds of... | |
| John Holland - 1835 - 516 páginas
...however," Mr. Bakewell adds, " we have in South Wales, adjoining the British Channel, an almost exhaustiess supply of coal and ironstone, which are yet nearly unwrought. It has been stated that this coal-field extends over about 1200 square miles, and that there are twenty-three beds of... | |
| John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 782 páginas
...whole present demand of England for coal for 2,000 years. The passage is as follows : — " Fortunately we have in South Wales, adjoining the Bristol Channel,...which are yet nearly unwrought. It has been stated, that this coal-field extends over about 1,200 square miles ; and that there are 23 beds of workable... | |
| 1855 - 804 páginas
...calamity. " Fortunately," says Bakewell in his " Geology,1' " we have in South Wales, adjoining the British Channel, an almost exhaustless supply of coal and...which are yet nearly unwrought. It has been stated that this coal-field extends over about 1200 square miles, and that there are twenty-three beds of... | |
| University magazine - 1855 - 784 páginas
...in his " Geology,'1 " we have in South Wales, adjoining the British Channel, an almost exh.iustlcss supply of coal and ironstone which are yet nearly unwrought. It has been stated that this coal-field extends over about 1200 square miles, and that there are twenty- three beds of... | |
| Family manual - 1859 - 304 páginas
...gloomy forebodings, ,we might draw a melancholy picture of our starving ao J declining population. Fortunately, however, we have, in South Wales, adjoining...which are yet nearly unwrought. It has been stated, that this coal-field extends over about twelve hundred square miles, and that there are twenty-three... | |
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