VEGETABLE REMAINS. 
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fer coal, many strata of the carboni- 
aro-’ir subordinate beds of a rich 
the which the near position of 
^®^heis easy of reduction to a metallic 
e; and this reduction is further facilitated 
y the proximity of limestone, which is requisite 
the metal from the ore, and 
'•oniferoLTat!" 
A formation that is at once the vehicle of two 
such valuable mineral productions as coal and 
ron, assumes a place of the first importance 
among the sources of benefit to mankind ; and 
thatthesemZrll . 
in water that wa formation were deposited 
been shown ^ a, 
in the lower re<rions oV'tr^^" ^ 
bert’s account of the I' ‘^'^''bon'ferous series. (See Dr. Hib- 
Transactions of the Roval"\ 
and Professor Phillips’s Nof ’ ° Edinburgh, vol. xiii. ; 
Unio, in the lower Lt of thT 
Pbil. Mag. Nov. T of Yorkshire; London 
vegetables in beds tl ’ i ’i causes which collected these 
strata of va^t Srtkn ^ - ^^P-^^^ed by 
'^aive illultrati!^ t and clay, re- 
tbe existing foreslsTf Am 
•■ies of the great rivers of O '‘''‘^"““lated in the estua- 
tbe MiLssino ! continent, particularly in the estuary 
Principles of O ^'i’ River Mackenzie. See Lyell’s 
Prof. Phillips’ d° ^ “*■ ^b- XV. and 
P‘- 37, page ^ Geology in Encyclopedia Metropolitan a. 
G. 
