A History of Coal Mining in Great BritainMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 273 pages |
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Page 64 - The manner of the carriage is, by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those 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.
Page 109 - The coal waggon roads from the pits to the water are great works, carried over all sorts of inequalities of ground, so far as the distance of nine or ten miles.
Page 64 - 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.
Page 70 - The ordinary remedy is to dig a hole in the earth and lay them on their bellies, with their mouths in it; if that fail they tun them full of good Ale; but if that fail they conclude them desperate.
Page 163 - It will give me great satisfaction if my chemical knowledge can be of any use in an inquiry so interesting to humanity, and I beg you will assure the Committee of my readiness to co-operate with them in any experiments or investigations on the subject. If you think my visiting the mines can be of any use I will cheerfully do so.
Page 54 - Master Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity and rare parts, adventured into our mines with his thirty thousand pounds ; who brought with him many rare engines not known then in these parts ; as the art to boore with iron rodds, to try the deepnesse and thicknesse of the coale ; rare engines to draw water out of the pits ; waggons with one horse to carry down coales from the pits to the stathes to the river, &c. Within few years he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse.
Page 23 - ... there are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, which have noted three things to be marvellously altered in England within their sound remembrance. One is, the multitude of chimneys lately erected ; whereas, in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious...
Page 164 - Thinking it was too much ever to be achieved, I gave him a look of incredulity ; at the moment it was beyond my comprehension. However, smiling, he said, ' Do not despair ; I think I can do something for you in a very short time.
Page 47 - Came home by Greenwich Ferry, where I saw Sir John Winter's new project of charring sea-coale, to burne out the sulphure and render it sweete.
Page 170 - that if a lamp could be made to contain the burnt air above the flame, and to permit the fire-damp to come in below in...