 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 594 pages
...his native country, written in the beginning of the 15th century, says, " There are black stones also digged out of the ground, which are very good for...such is their intolerable heat, that they resolve ^Minerals, and melt iron, and therefore are very profitable for smiths/ and such artificers as deal... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 602 pages
...ground, which are verygoodfor firing ; and such is their intolerable heat, that they resolve ^Minerals. and melt iron, and therefore are very profitable for...smiths, and such artificers as deal with other metals j neither are they found any where else (that I know of) than between the Tay and Tyne, within the... | |
 | John Williams - Mineralogy - 1810 - 590 pages
...country, written in the beginning of " the sixteenth century, says, ' There are black " stones also digged out of the ground, which are" very good for firing; and such is their intolc" rable heat, that they resolve and melt iron, and " therefore are very profitable for smiths... | |
 | Peter Chalmers - Church records and registers - 1844 - 666 pages
...native country, written in the beginning of the sixteenth century, says, " There are black stones also digged out of the ground, which are very good for...metals; neither are they found any where else (that I know of) but between the Tay and Tyne, within the whole island." t Coal was only partially used in... | |
 | Peter Chalmers - Church records and registers - 1844 - 656 pages
...beginning of the sixteenth century, says, " There are black stones also digged out of the ground, which arc very good for firing, and such is their intolerable...metals; neither are they found any where else (that I know of) but between the Tay and Tync, within the whole island. "t Coal was only partially used in... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Heating - 1845 - 284 pages
...According to the doctor, on the " borders by Drycol Forest, and so upward to Berwyke,they have nohowses but suche as a man may builde in thre or iiii houres....Edin. p. 86. It is singular that neither Sir David Lyndnay, nor Sylvius, nor Boethius, have a name for coal. * The Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Heating - 1845 - 280 pages
...as alive to their value, if that may be inferred from a resolute attempt to preserve them. In l5l3, a complaint was heard by the Scottish Judges against...very good for firing, and such is their intolerable heut, that they resolve and melt iron ; and, therefore, are very profitable for smiths and such artificers... | |
 | 1868 - 398 pages
...of Scotland, written in the beginning of the sixteenth century, says : " There are black stones also digged out of the ground, which are very good for...smiths and such artificers as deal with other metals." The popular prejudice against coal, and the want of appliances for digging it out of the earth, combined... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1869 - 1026 pages
...of Scotland, written, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, says: "There are black stones also digged out of the ground, which are very good for...smiths and such artificers as deal with other metals." The popular prejudice against coal, ami the want of appliances for digging it out of the earth, combined... | |
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This species of stone," he adds, "whether with sulphur or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood." A description of Scotland, written in the beginning of the sixteenth century, says: "There are black stones also... 
