 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 344 pages
...same series as those more bent and curved beds at Frostburg before described. I was truly astonished, now that I had entered the hydrographical basin of...with the primeval forest, and manufacturing industry I I ,s fe in its infancy, when the full value of this inexhaustible supply of cheap fuel can be appreciated;... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 320 pages
...series as those more bent and curved beds at Frostburg before described. I was truly astonished, now tkt I had entered the hydrographical basin of the Ohio,...with the primeval forest, and manufacturing industry To face Val.ll.p.-a. in its infancy, when the full value of this inexhaustible supply of cheap fuel... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1847 - 434 pages
...truly astonished," continnes Mr. Lyell, " now that I had entered the hydrographical (water-formed) basin of the Ohio, at beholding the richness of the seams of coal, which appear every where on the flanks of the hills, and at the bottom of the valleys ; and which are accessible... | |
 | Archibald Prentice - 1849 - 268 pages
...same series as those mare bent and curved beds at Frostburg, before described. I was truly astonished, now that I had entered the hydrographical basin of the Ohio, at beholding the riches of the seams of coal, which appear everywhere on the flanks of the hills and at the bottoms... | |
 | Neville B. Craig - 1851 - 352 pages
...same series as those more bent and curved beds at Frostburg before described. I was truly astonished, now that I had entered the hydrographical basin of...beholding the richness of the seams of coal, which appear every where on the flanks of the hills, and at the botT* torn of the valleys, and which are accessible... | |
 | 1854 - 798 pages
...Brownsville, on the Monongahela, where the country consista of coal measures. / was truly astonished, now that I had entered the hydrographical basin of...everywhere on the flanks of the hills, and at the bottoms of the valleys, and which are accessible in a degree which I never witnessed elsewhere. The... | |
 | 1854 - 816 pages
...Brownsville, on the Monongahela, where the country consists of coal measures. I was truly astonished, now that I had entered the hydrographical basin of...coal, which appear everywhere on the flanks of the hub, and at the bottoms of the valleys, and which are accessible in a degree which I never witnessed... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - 304 pages
...same series as those more bent and curved beds at Frostburg before described. I was truly astonished, now that I had entered the hydrographical basin of...with the primeval forest, and manufacturing industry To face Vol. II. p. 3 I I in its infancy, when the full value of this inexhaustible supply of cheap... | |
 | George Henry Thurston - 1870 - 322 pages
...richness of the seams of coal which appeared everywhere on the flanks of the hills and at the bottoms of the valleys, and which are accessible in a degree I never witnessed elsewhere. The time hat not yet arrived when the full value of this inexhaustible supply of cheap fuel can be appreciated.... | |
 | George Henry Thurston - 1876 - 320 pages
...Lyell, the eminent English geologist, says in his travels in North America: "I was truly astonished now that I had entered the hydrographical basin of...beholding the richness of the seams of coal which appeared everywhere on the flanks of the hills and at the bottoms of the valleys, and which are accessible... | |
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I was truly astonished, now that I had entered the hydrographical basin of the Ohio, at beholding the richness of the seams of coal, which appear everywhere on the flanks of the hills and at the bottom of the valleys, and which are accessible in a degree... 
