THE COAL-REGIONS 



OF AMERICA: 



Their Topography, Geology, and Development. 



With a Colored Geological Map of Pennsylvania; a Railroad Map of all the 



Coal Regions; 24 other Maps, showing each County in all the States 



containing Coal; 15 full page and 25 smaller Illustrations. 



By JAMES MACFARLANE, Ph. D. 



HTHIS work is scientifically correct, yet eminently practical. The author of it has 

 A been for twenty-one years actively employed in a large coal business, being the General 

 Agent of the coal companies in Tioga, Lycoming, and Bradford Counties, Pennsylvania, 

 the largest single bituminous coal-mining organization in the United States. The book 

 he has prepared is one that has been much needed, giving in a clear and popular form, 

 and in a business-like way, so that unlearned readers can understand it, a large amount 

 of sound and solid information in regard to all the coal-fields of the United States, 

 systematically arranged. A proper account is first given of the Anthracite Regions of 

 Pennsylvania, but the main portion of the work is on the Bituminous and Semi-Bituminous 

 Regions of that and the other States. The existence and quality of coal in any county 

 in the United States can here be ascertained. 



The facts are derived from the best sources, the reports of the several State 

 Geological Surveys having been carefully studied, and later materials added from coal 

 companies' reports and other sources, or derived from personal observations in the 

 course of business, and in visiting the coal-regions. 



The chapter on each State gives a full account of its coal-region, describing its 

 geographical situation by counties, its topography, area, and geological structure, giving 

 particularly the series of coal-strata, the number, size, and characteristics of its coal- 

 beds, the quality and analysis of its coal, its advantages and disadvantages for mining, 

 the state of its development, the statistics of its production, and any other facts of 

 special interest. 



The Appendix contains useful information, applicable to all the coal-regions, on the 

 geology of coal, the combustion of coal, the conditions of success in the coal-trade, and 

 the latest statistics of the coal mined in, and sketches of the coal-fields of all parts of 

 the world. 



It has become a standard authority on this subject, and it has been pronounced by 

 the State Geologists and best critics to bB a work of real merit, containing such a col- 

 lection of accurate, interesting, and useful information of permanent importance and 

 value, not to be found elsewhere, as has given it a wide circulation, and made it a 

 valuable addition to every library. 



Third Edition, 1877, One handsome octavo volume of 700 pages, Bound 

 in Cloth, $5.00 ; Leather, $6.00. Sent by mail post-paid, on receipt of the 

 price. 



D. APFLETON & CO., Publishers, 



549 & 551 Broadivay, New York. 



