200 MINES MEl\i.S, »ND GEMS. ^ 
n^mesln Hungary. Peru, and elsewhere, bcj>J^^,!>S 
Viountainous connUies, whetti the surface ol ,, 
Fated to a great height above the level 
4 ^. 
111 these mines there are tlirce strata of coal, J 
a considerable distance one above tlie other,^ai^^^^ j 
communicate b 7 plts 7 but^ the vein is not alwg 
in tlie same regularly-incUned plane, prt'S, 
. meeting Vitdi hard rock, by which '■^'‘^‘'■/7lveb«®*’-oi'C 
. . i A tliprn spem to 
nieeiing wiru naivv i^^cv, hoO'' 
interrupted. >t such idaees thc^^^^ ,i 
“rS, fmm the^uriace ^wnwa.^ oj ^ g 
nearing to have sunk down, while the adjoimn„ P J 
^ ■ ■ ■ • Ill some 01 tne» •.» 
Lived" it^toncient situation,^ In some of tl« 
earth has sunk ten, twenty tathoras, and ev ^ g I- J 
Ivic been less than ,gv # 
mothers the depression has been 1“S tl a' jjjg) 
These breaks the miners call dykes ; and v 
one of them, their first care is to discove^__^i,-,i) ii 
strata in tlie adjoining ic'co'Vf if / 
Strata m me aujuuuu^ 
part where they had been working ; or, ca’*- iio, 
own phrase, whether the castyft)i{^ 
worked for a succession of ages. Pope 
description of Europe, written about UoV, ^ 
he beheld with wonder black stones g"® 7 ver, 
jae Deuciu wuu ^ ‘ 
poor of Scotland. This mineral may, h°' ^gcot'f ifd'/ 
to the twelfth century ; and a very early 
to the twemn ceniuiy ; .m- .. ’-y ^ 
Scottish coal mines, explains, with 7:7 
manner of working the coal, not neglect t 
manner ot wording ine c^oi, ‘ 
MibtciTancous ivalls of whin which in 
MintClT.inc 0 U 5 wans U 1 vvi.... tlw ‘ (ir,r 
ticnlarly a remarkable one, visible from prest^/i*' 
where it forms a cataract, and . y.hjrCi 
the shore of Fife. The Lothians and Fi r> 
the shore of Fife, i he ixttmans anu i e>- r 
abound witli this useful mineral, which varif j^/ 
Ayrshire ; and near Irwin is found a cun e roh nuj 
ve,,.. 
-if 
it IS conjeciuic^. Jji y- i 
Europe, exists in a ban'eu tract of count 
iXiVirih America, coal lias been 
ftbboii coal. A singular coal, m vv-^^ 
been found at Castle Leod, m the j fjcl“ 
it is conjectured that the largest untoueb p ^ ,,i 
