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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and much of the scenery is very beautiful. A large seam of whinstone runs across the whole district, passes …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… value of the parish is 7317. The rock consists of trap, a seam of which, about half a mile broad, runs for seven miles …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… quality is obtained in the immediate vicinity; one seam, called the Barnsley thick bed, averages about ten feet …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… abounds in coal and freestone. In the 17th century a seam of coal in the vicinity caught fire at a candle, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… for building, and, in some places, appears resting on a seam of whitish-coloured stone of great hardness, strongly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… manufactory for waterproof hose, made of flax, without seam, and of any length and diameter, chiefly for the use of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… chiefly arable, and the soil of various qualities. A thin seam of coal is wrought, employing about 100 hands; as is …