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as we know them now, and men wandered over hill, and plain, 

 and cut down forest trees for fuel, all unaware that, deep 

 down under their feet, lay these vast stores of hard black 



A FOREST OF THE COAL PERIOD 



coal, whose use would one day work such wonderful changes 

 in the life of the nation. 



The Discovery of Coal. Sometimes, owing to a bending of 

 the earth's surface, the seams of coal instead of lying horizontally 

 lie in a sloping position, and one end of the slope comes to 

 the surface. This was probably how the existence of coal was 

 discovered. At any rate, here, in England, at the time of 



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