CHAPTER VIL 
COAL MEASURES CONTINUED. 
General yiew of Coal Measures in various parts of the Globe. 
Africa, Asia, Australia, America, Europe, and the British Isles. 
Mineralogy of Coal. Distortions of Strata. Faults. Advan¬ 
tages of actual Arrangements. References to history of the 
use of Coal. Statistics of the Subject. 
Nature all o’er is consecrated ground, 
Teeming with growths immortal and divine ; 
The great proprietor’s all bounteous hand 
Leaves nothing waste, but sows these fiery fields 
AVith seeds of reason.”— Young. 
A MORE extended view of the principal 
accumulations of fossil plants, which under 
the name of the coal measures, furnish such 
large contributions to the comforts and con- 
veniencies of life, will not be misplaced in 
the present sketch of the ancient vegeta- 
tion, whence all their stores were derived. 
We have already seen that although coal 
