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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt:...skill in those who conducted the operations. This prevented as much system in the works as was necessary, and also the introduction of proper and economical machinery. And h: says, that' amongst the many losses, which contributed to work their ruin, that was not the least, of allowing or permittingthe workmen to have from half a pint to a pint of spirituous liquors during the working hours. We neither allow nor permit any thing of the sort, nor is it allowed or permitted in any mining establishment in Europe. Instead of benefitting a man it actually incapacitates him: and exclusive of the immoral effects on the passions of the workmen, I consider it a loss to the owners of at least one sixth of the whole manual labor.' The second cause of failure, he says, lay in sending the coal from the mines in an improper state; that is, unsorted, and in too large lumps. He says that the Rhode Island coal does not break easily when ignited, like the Lehigh coal, and that this fact and the amount of impurities which it contained, injured its reputation in the market. He thinks that if mixed in equal quantity with the Pennsylvania or bituminous coal, it answers best for fuel: and he says he has abundant evidence, that one ton of the Rhode Island coal, mixed with a ton of that from Pennsylvania, is equal to two tons of the anthracite from the latter state. Bristol County and Rhode Island Coed. 187 Numerous experiments were made a few years ago, and are detailed in the eleventh volume of the American Journal of Science, by Mr. Bull of Philadelphia, and Professor Silliman of Yale College, to determine the comparative value of the Rhode Island and Pennsylvania anthracite: and the fair conclusion from all their experiments is, that the former is not much inferior to the latter...