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COAL MINING IN OHIO. 
By Hon. ANDREW Roy, State InsPEctor or MINEs. 
EARLY CoAL MINING IN ENGLAND. 
The art of coal mining originated in England. The savage and 
roving tribes who inhabited Britain at the time the island was invaded 
by Julius Cesar, were doubtless acquainted with the use of coal, and 
mined it with tools of wood or flint before the use of iron was under- 
stood. 
The Romans, while in England, the Anglo-Saxons and the Anglo- 
Normans were acquainted with the coal beds, and used coal to some 
extent. 
Coal is not, however, expressly mentioned in English History until 
the year 1180, in which year the Bishop of Durham granted lands con- 
taining coal to be mined for blacksmithing purposes. 
By the beginning of the Fourteenth Century, coal had found its 
way to London, and was largely used by the common people,-as being 
cheaper than wood, but its use was unpopular, and an outcry arose 
against it. 
In the year 1306 the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament 
on behalf of the citizens of London, petitioned King Edward the First 
to prohibit the use of coal in the city, and the King issued his Royal 
Proclamation forbidding its use in London and the suburbs, and com- 
manded that all furnaces and kilns which burned coal be destroyed ; 
but notwithstanding the royal mandate, the ostracised mineral con- 
tinued to be burned, and twenty years later found its way to the royal 
palace itself. The use of coal was again prohibited in London by 
Queen Elizabeth during the sitting of Parliament. 
On the Continent of Europe the mines of Zwickau, in Saxony, 
were worked in the Fourteenth Century, and in the years 1348 the 
metal workers of Zwickau were forbidden to use coal in their establish- 
