The Adventures of a Coal-mineWestley and Davis, 1836 - 168 sivua |
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Sivu 151 - It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Sivu 163 - Indeed too beautiful to be much in unison with that variety of horrors art has spread at the bottom; the noise of the forges, mills, etc., with all their vast machinery, the flames bursting from the furnaces with the burning of the coal and the smoak of the lime kilns, are altogether sublime, and would unite well with craggy and bare rocks, like St.
Sivu 16 - The frugal housewife trembles when she lights Her scanty stock of brushwood, blazing clear, But dying soon, like all terrestrial joys.
Sivu 118 - This fire, which has reduced many acres of land to a mere calx, arises from a burning stratum of coal about four feet thick, and eight or ten yards deep, to which the air has free access, in consequence of the main coal having been dug from beneath it. The surface of the ground is sometimes covered for many yards with such quantities of sulphur, that it can be easily gathered. The calx has been found to be an excellent material for the roads, and the workmen who collect it, often find large beds...
Sivu 30 - ... retainers. In the centre of the hall was the rere-doss or fireiron, against which faggots were piled, and burnt upon the stone floor, the smoke passing through an opening in the roof immediately overhead, which was generally formed into an elevated lantern, a conspicuous ornament to the exterior of the building. In later times, a widearched fireplace was formed in the side of the room.
Sivu 119 - Burning Coal Mine at New Sauchie. — It is now more than two years since the snow lying on a field on the farm of Shaw Park, belonging to the Earl of Mansfield, was observed to melt almost as soon as it fell, and then rise in a state of vapour. The phenomenon attracted the attention of the managers of the Alloa and Devon collieries, and was found to be the effect of the heat produced by a stratum of coal in a state of ignition, technically known by the name of the nine feet seam, from which the...
Sivu 25 - This species of stone, (says he) whether with sulphur, or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute.
Sivu 115 - By a sudden burst of water into one of the Newcastle collieries, thirty-five men and forty-one lads were driven into a distant part of the pit, from which there was no possibility of return, until the water should be drawn off.
Sivu 116 - After his funeral, a sympathising friend of the neglected poor went to visit her ; and while the mother showed him, as a relic of her son, his Bible, worn and soiled with constant perusal, he happened to cast his eyes on a candle-box, with which, as a miner...
Sivu 84 - I received from a respectable attorney. During his clerkship he was sent to serve some legal process on a man whose name and address were given to him with legal accuracy. He traversed the village to which he had been directed from end to end without success ; and after spending many hours in the search, was about to abandon it in despair, when a young woman, who had witnessed his labours, kindly undertook to make inquiries for him, and began to hail her friends for that purpose. Oi say, Bullyed,...