A singular species of coal has also been found at Bathurst, resembling in some degree the Scotch Cannel coal, serving as a sort of connecting link between it and charcoal, which latter it resembles very strongly, being nearly as light and breaking with... Two Years in New South Wales - Page 2by Peter Miller Cunningham - 1827Full view - About this book
| Peter Miller Cunningham - Convicts - 1827 - 728 pages
...ready market for this valuable mineral, in which no other country can successfully compete with us, oil account of our proximity ; — whilst we shall be...light and breaking with a similar fracture, while it barns almost with the steady brightness of a candle. It appears indeed to form the connecting link... | |
| Peter Miller Cunningham - New South Wales - 1827 - 372 pages
...singular species of coal has also been found at Bathurst, resembling in some degree the Scotch Cannol coal, serving as a sort of connecting link between...wanted, as a demonstration that coal is of vegetable forma" tion ; for if the outer whitish stony crust were .broken off, I think the ablest geologists... | |
| 1831 - 444 pages
...simular species of coal has also been found at Balhurst, resembling in some degree the Scotch cannai coal, serving as a sort of connecting link between...strongly, being nearly as light, and breaking with a similarfracture, while it burns almost with the steady brightness of a candle. There is a great deal... | |
| Archibald Liversidge - Geology - 1882 - 168 pages
...species of coal has been found at Bathurst, resembling in some degree the Scotch cannel coal * * * being nearly as light, and breaking with a similar...burns almost with the steady brightness of a candle." The following account of the discovery of the " Kerosene Shale" has been extracted from MSS of the... | |
| Archibald Liversidge - Mineralogy - 1888 - 356 pages
...species of coal has been found at Bathurst, resembling in some degree the Scotch cannel coal, . . . being nearly as light, and breaking with a similar...burns almost with the steady brightness of a candle." The following account of the rediscovery of the " kerosene shale " has been extracted from MSS. of... | |
| Geological Survey of New South Wales, Edward Fisher Pittman - Mines and mineral resources - 1901 - 650 pages
...charcoal, which latter it resembles very closely, being nearly as light, and breakiny with a simitar fracture, while it burns almost with the steady brightness...if the outer whitish stony crust were broken off, J think tfie ablest yeoloyists would unlie&itatinyly declare it to be the absolute charcoal of some... | |
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