Author: Samuel Harries Daddow

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-13

Total Pages: 810

ISBN-13: 9780282927431

Excerpt from Coal, Iron, and Oil, or the Practical American Miner: A Plain and Popular Work on Our Mines and Mineral Resources, and a Text-Book or Guide to Their Economical Development; With Numerous Maps and Engravings Decline of the British Empire - Oil and Coal - Nature's Laboratories. God, in his wonderful providence, has blessed our country, above all others, with the most magnificent profusion Of mineral wealth. When compared with the most favored lands, where coal and iron are essential elements of national Wealth and greatness, our country far surpasses them all in her exhaustless resources, not only of those great and controlling elements, but all the essentials to national strength and power which make an industrious people wealthy, prosperous, and respected. In every aspect in which we View the wonderful resources of our country, we find cause for gratulation and admiration, whether we con template the productions Of the soil, or the vast extent and richness Of the mineral kingdom; the wide and varied scenes of its distribution, or the topographical features and facilities for its development. These resources, however, are rivalled by the physical proportions Of the land which we cannot cease to laud and admire, - whose limits extend from ocean to Ocean, and occupy one-eighth (713) Of the habitable world, within the temperate zones. 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.