| 1849 - 312 pages
...whole Country away ; so, on the contrary, when in this Country we see the prodigious heaps, I might say Mountains, of Coals, which are dug up at every Pit, and how many of those Pits there are ; we are filled with equal Wonder to consider where the People should live, that... | |
| William Fordyce - Durham (England : County) - 1857 - 730 pages
...year ; and also 64 loads of great wood, "bicausc colys wijl not byrne without wodd." to be supplied, and that they do not bring the whole coal country away ; yet, when in this country we see the prodigious heaps, I might say mountains of coals, which are dug up at every pit, and how many... | |
| Daniel Defoe - Great Britain - 1927 - 520 pages
...to wonder whence they come, and that they do not bring the whole Country away; fo, on the contrary, when in this Country we fee the prodigious Heaps,...filled with equal Wonder to confider where the People mould live that can confume them. Newcaftle is a fpacious, extended, infinitely populous Place; 'tis... | |
| Wolfgang Schivelbusch - Business & Economics - 1986 - 246 pages
...day, traveled through the region and expressed his astonishment at the 'prodigious Heaps, I might say Mountains, of Coals, which are dug up at every Pit, and how many of those Pits there are; we are filled . . . with Wonder to consider where the People should live that... | |
| David Levine - Political Science - 1987 - 268 pages
...whole country away; so, on the contrary, when in this country we see the prodigious heaps, I might say mountains, of coals, which are dug up at every pit, and how many of those pits there are; we are filled with equal wonder to consider where the people should live that... | |
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