This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...for any purposo that has yet been imagined. Marvellous indeed arc the results obtained on considering the uses of those materials which form together the great carboniferous series of deposits as developed in the north of England. In a small strip of country, in an area of less than six or eight thousand square miles, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...for any purposo that has yet been imagined. Marvellous indeed arc the results obtained on considering the uses of those materials which form together the great carboniferous series of deposits as developed in the north of England. In a small strip of country, in an area of less than six or eight thousand square miles, which in some parts of Europe would be passed over almost without remark by the practical man, tie politican, and tho statistician--we find grouped together a multitude of large towns, a population of some millions of people, having, perhaps, more influence on tho comforts of civilized man throughout the world than could elsewhere be found in a space of five, or even ten times that amount. Nor U this all. The other great manufacturing and commercial towns of England, with the exception of the capital, arc similarly placed with reference to geological position. The coal and iron of the carboniferous rocks form still the magnet towards which the other desirable thing3 of this world are attracted, and they determine tho growth and well-being of towns, not only in England, but elsewhere on the continent of Europe, and lately in America also. In France, Belgium, and Germany, we everywhere sec towns rising up into manufacturing importance, where fuel and iron exist beneath tho soil; and rarely indeed has it been found possible to produce any great improvement in these respects, except where nature has pre-ordained it by giving these sources of true riches. It is now well known that, however, valuable in themselves other rarer natural products may be, there is no doubt of the enormously greater benefit to a people in the case of those materials which either enter into every manufacture, and arc sources of power, or which are greatly increased in value..
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