 | Books and bookselling - 1786 - 494 pages
...for the workmen, and the two unfortunate adventurers extricated after a whole night'« imprifonment. On examining this fubterranean •wonder, it was found...to the bed of coal ; — that it branched off into various chambers, where the miners had pulhed on their different works; — that pillars were left,... | |
 | 1786 - 800 pages
...'or the workmen, and the two unfortunate adventurers extricated after a whole night's imprisonment. On examining this fubterranean wonder, it was found...many hundred yards to the bed of coal , — that it hi anched off into various chambers, where the miners had puflied en their different works ;— that... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1786 - 602 pages
...unfortunate adventurers extricated, after a whole night's imprifonment. ' On examining this fubterraneous wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward many hundred yards, to a bed of coal ; that it branched off into various chambers, where the miners had pufhed on their different... | |
 | Books - 1786 - 610 pages
...unfortunate adventurers extricated, after a whole night's imprifonment, ' On examining this fubterraneous wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward many hundred y :"'<.!•., to a bed of coal ; that it branched off into various chambers, where the miners had pufhed... | |
 | William Hamilton - Antrim (Northern Ireland : County) - 1790 - 364 pages
...rifen in full fplendor, which they had left the morning before juft beginning to tinge the eaftern horizon. ON examining this fubterranean wonder, it...the bed of coal*: That it branched off into numerous * The adit had been carried forward about 450 yards, or a little more than a quarter of an Englilh... | |
 | Gleanings - 1805 - 246 pages
...unfortunate adventurers extricated after a whole nights imprisonment. In examining this subterraneous wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery which had been driven forward many hundred yards to a bed of coal that had branched off into various chambers, where the miners had parted on their different... | |
 | Joseph Robertson (of Edinburgh.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...an " extensive labyrinth, branching off into different apart" merits. On examining this subterranean wonder, it " was found to be a complete gallery, which...miners had carried on their different works : " that these chambers were dressed in a workman-like "manner, that pillars were left at proper intervals to... | |
 | John Dubourdieu - Agriculture - 1812 - 820 pages
...fortunately fdr them succeeded, and they were taken out after being in this perilous situation. This cavern was found to be a complete gallery, which had been...driven forward many hundred yards to the bed of coal, branching into numerous chambers, which were dressed in a workmanlike manner; in reality it was found... | |
 | John Dubourdieu - Agriculture - 1812 - 876 pages
...fortunately for them succeeded, and they were taken out after being in this perilous situation. This cavern was found to be a complete gallery, which had been...driven forward many hundred yards to the bed of coal, branching into numerous chambers, which were dressed in a workmanlike manner; in reality it was found... | |
 | Sir Richard John Griffith - Coal and coal mining - 1814 - 336 pages
...On being sufficiently widened, some workmen went through it. In minutely examining this subterranean wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward, many hundred yards, into the bed of coal ; it branched out into 36 chambers, where coal miners had carried forward their... | |
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On examining this subterranean wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward many hundred yards to the bed of coal : that it branched off into numerous... 
