The Mining and Smelting Magazine, Volume 1The Office, 1862 |
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Page 125 - HULL— COAL FIELDS of GREAT BRITAIN ; their History, Structure, and Resources ; with Notices of the Coal Fields of other parts of the World.
Page 256 - Koy, the ice had apparently passed north-eastwardly, over the watershed, towards the Spey. In Knapdale, Argyllshire, similar evidence is obtained of a great ice-stream passing over hill and dale ; here falling into the Sound of Jura. The author referred to Rink's and Sutherland's observations on the continental ice of Greenland as affording a probable solution of these phenomena ; and, objecting to the hypothesis either of floating ice and of debacles being sufficient to account for the conditions...
Page 112 - If such works were judiciously constructed with a view to future extension, their capacity might be doubled at an outlay of about 50 per cent, of the original cost. Fuel is the largest item of expenditure in copper-works, and consequently a situation where suitable and cheap coal can be obtained is of great importance. The quantity of coal consumed will vary much with its quality, and in a greater or less degree with the nature of the ores and the economy of management ; but it may be generally estimated...
Page 179 - Carew's Survey of Cornwall ; to which are added, Notes Illustrative of its History and Antiquities, by the late Thomas Tonkin, Esq.
Page 257 - Sweden, and North America.” By AC Ramsay, FRS, President of the Geological Society. The author first stated that in this memoir he proposed to extend his theory of the glacial origin of the smaller mountain-lakes of Wales and Switzerland (published in • The Old Glaciers of North Wales ‘) to those greater lakes of Switzerland which, like the tame above alluded to, lie in true rock-basins.
Page 179 - Copper is found in sundry places, but with what gain to the searchers, I have not been curious to inquire, nor they hasty to reveal : for at one time (of which I took a view) the ore was shipped to be refined in Wales, either to save cost in fuel or to conceal the profit.
Page 186 - ... undertaken on this subject have led me to results remarkable for the simplicity which they introduce into the history of igneous formations, and which, besides, being founded on experimental data, appear to me to agree perfectly with geological observations.
Page 26 - Spain 1—52 250,000 Of the nine countries, India is thus already seventh on the list. What a future for America is involved in the fact that nearly a fourth of her whole area, as far as investigated, is covered with coal. India raises a third more than Spain, and about the same amount as Warwickshire. The consumption of coal in India and by vessels leaving its ports we may estimate at 700,000 tons annually, the amount imported in 1857 from England being 329,157 tons. Reckoning the price of Indian...
Page 210 - The reason of this is, that every act which is done by a servant in the course of his duty is regarded as done by his master's orders, and consequently is the same as if it were the master's own act, according to the maxim, qui facit per alium facit per se.