The Coal Fields Of Great Britain PDF Download

Excerpt from The Coal-Fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure, and Resources; Description of the Coal-Fields of Our Indian and Colonial Empire, and of Other Parts of the World So many years have elapsed since the publication of the first edition of this work, and so great has been the advance in our knowledge of the Coal-fields of nearly all countries within this period, that, in order to make the reader acquainted with it, I have found it necessary to re-write the greater portion of the book. Within the interval here alluded to, the following are some of the more important events which have occurred in reference to the subjects herein treated: - 1. A great step towards completion has been made in the Government surveys of the British coal-fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.