The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 6. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1878 |
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Page 43
... France , in the department of Saône - et - Loire , about twelve miles by rail north - west of Macon , on the left bank of the Grône , a tributary of the Saône , crossed there by two bridges . It is a place of upwards of 4000 inhabitants ...
... France , in the department of Saône - et - Loire , about twelve miles by rail north - west of Macon , on the left bank of the Grône , a tributary of the Saône , crossed there by two bridges . It is a place of upwards of 4000 inhabitants ...
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... France , and black or stone coal , which is equivalent to coal as understood in England . Stone coal is also a local English term , but with a signification restricted to the substance known by mineralogists as anthracite . In old ...
... France , and black or stone coal , which is equivalent to coal as understood in England . Stone coal is also a local English term , but with a signification restricted to the substance known by mineralogists as anthracite . In old ...
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... France and Belgium . The most easterly point in England at which the coal measures have been worked is near Bath , where the overlying Liassic and New Red Sand- stone strata are about 360 feet thick , beneath which the coal has been ...
... France and Belgium . The most easterly point in England at which the coal measures have been worked is near Bath , where the overlying Liassic and New Red Sand- stone strata are about 360 feet thick , beneath which the coal has been ...
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... France and Belgium to the Rhine valley on the north side of the Ardennes , and those of the more easterly district of Silesia and of the north of Spain . The remaining and far more numerous European coal - fields are either contained in ...
... France and Belgium to the Rhine valley on the north side of the Ardennes , and those of the more easterly district of Silesia and of the north of Spain . The remaining and far more numerous European coal - fields are either contained in ...
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... France . This coal - field , which was unknown before 1734 , has reached a very high state of production in spite of great difficulties interposed by the water - bearing strata covering the coal measures . It extends for about 45 miles ...
... France . This coal - field , which was unknown before 1734 , has reached a very high state of production in spite of great difficulties interposed by the water - bearing strata covering the coal measures . It extends for about 45 miles ...
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