Download or read book What s Mine s Mine Classic Reprint written by George MacDonald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from What's Mine's Mine For, supposing my reader one of the company, let him rise from the well-appointed table - its silver, bright as the complex motions of butler's elbows can make it; its china, ornate though not elegant; its ham. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Story of a Mine Classic Reprint written by Bret Harte and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of a Mine What are you kicking up such a devil Of a row down there for? Said a gruff voice from the rocks above. Concho shuddered. Could it be that the devil was really going to fly away with his mule. He dared not look up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Things That Are Mine Classic Reprint written by Scottie McKenzie Frasier and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Things That Are Mine The black swallows circling round and round, The plaintive cry of a bird at night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Year in a Coal Mine Classic Reprint written by Joseph Husband and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Year in a Coal-Mine From the window we passed along to a little inclosure directly above the mouth of the main hoisting-shaft. Sheer above it the black tower of the tipple pointed up into the hot, blue morning sky; and the dull, dry heat of the at Illinois country seemed to sink down around it. But from the square, black mouth of the shaft a strong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Deep Down written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Deep Down: A Tale of the Cornish Mines To Cornishmen who may do me the honour to peruse these pages, I have to prefer the request that they will bear in remembrance that they read a book which is not a record of facts, but a story founded on facts, in the composition of which I have, to a considerable extent, transposed time, place, and cir cumstance, as the exigencies of the case required always, however, endeavouring to convey a truthful impression both when treating of fact and playing with fancy. Particularly would I beg of them to believe that I have endeavoured to avoid giving un intentional ofi'ence, and that, in the names used and the characters introduced, no one now alive is directly pointed at, although some of my friends of St. Just will probably recognize incidents that occurred to themselves, saddled on the shoulders of some of the actors in the tale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Down in a Mine written by George Eliel Sargent and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Down in a Mine: Or Buried Alive If you were to travel through this country on any working day in the week, you would see thick smoke rising from black-looking fur naces, and spreading above and around, so as to darken the sky; but not many people would be visible, and those whom you might meet would have a strange, blackened look about them. You would probably pass clus ters of black-looking ruins, which were once cottages of working men, but which have been deserted long ago; and you might well wonder at the desolate appearance of every thing around you. If you were to travel through this country by night, you would be startled, perhaps, by seeing large, blazing fires in every direction, appearing to rise out of the ground in huge flames. And either by night or by day, the young traveler would very naturally be glad to get away as soon as possible from so dreary a scene. But, though every thing looks so black and dismal, the part of England I have described is very important to the whole country, and the people who live in it are useful and indus trions, and, let us h0pe, contented and happy also; though, in some respects, it is a strange life that they lead: but I shall speak of this in another chapter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines Classic Reprint written by Edward George Dyson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rhymes From the Mines, and Other Lines The greater part of the material contained in this volume has appeared in the pages of The Bulletin, Sydney, from time to time during the last eight years. 'the Rescue' and 'peter Simson's Farm' were published originally in the Melbourne Argus. I have to thank the proprietors of both journals for their courtesy in permitting me to reproduce the verses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Mine Or Darkness and Light Classic Reprint written by A. L. O. E and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mine, or Darkness and Light The sea does not look here as it does anywhere else! You never have a proper good storm in this miserable bay! I like to see the great billows come rolling and tossing upon the shore, covering the beach with their creamy foam, and tossing on high their sparkling spray! But here, even when I can see the distant waters all whitened with the gale, the waves come creeping in as if they were ashamed Of themselves, and had not life or spirit for a toss! The very sea-mews never come near us here; not a swallow builds its nest under our eaves one never hears the voice Of a bird 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book What s Mine s Mine written by George MacDonald and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1886 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treatise on Mine Surveying Classic Reprint written by Bennett H. Brough and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Mine Surveying The Appendix of examination-questions and exercises for plotting has been culled from recent papers set at the examinations of the Science and Art Department, of the City and Guilds of London Institute, of the local boards under the Home Office for granting certificates of competency to Colliery Managers, and of various Mining Schools. These will, it is trusted, be found of use to such students as have not the advantage of regular instruction in the subject. It must, however, be borne in mind that the mere reading of a text-book will never make a mine-surveyor. The most that a book can do is to help the student to obtain a knowledge of the theory of the subject. The mechanical manipulation of the instruments can only be learnt under the personal supervision of a teacher, whilst the technical skill requisite for carrying out subterranean surveys must be obtained in the mine itself. I have taken for granted on the part of my readers an elementary knowledge of mathematics, such, for example, as would enable them to pass the second stage of the Science and Art Department's examination in that subject. In the preparation of the work, I have received valuable help from numerous friends at home and abroad. In particular, I am indebted to Mr. H. W. Hughes, Assoc. R.S.M., F.G.S., for several important additions to the text, and to Mr. A. Pringle, M.A., B.Sc., who ably assisted me while the volume was passing through the press. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mine and Thine Classic Reprint written by Florence Earle Coates and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mine and Thine Let me share thy tears!s O N G O F L I F E Give me Of thy fullness, Life! Pulse and passion, power, breath, Vision pure, heroic strife, Give me of thy fullness, Life! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mines and Mining Classic Reprint written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mines and Mining With the subject of natural caverns, to which attention has been directed in a former volume of the Monthly Series, we may appropriately connect a view of those artificial excavations, descending to a varying depth beneath the surface, which have been conducted by civilized and some semi-barbarous nations, in the quest of mineral wealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Underground Life Or Mines and Miners Classic Reprint written by Louis Simonin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Underground Life, or Mines and Miners In the following pages we purpose to describe the struggle of the miner in its reality, without exaggeration of any sort. We shall follow him to the field of his labours, observe him in his subterranean life, and describe his habits in various countries; and as we would not only amuse, but instruct, we shall speak of the countries he inhabits, and of the substances he digs from the earth: in short, we shall endeavour to explain the social position of this pioneer of civilization. We our selves have long sojourned with him both in Europe and in America, and have made ourselves acquainted with the manly qualities which so eminently distinguish him. The first part of the present work is devoted to Coal, a substance indispensable to all civilized nations; the second to Metals, the origin of all progress; the last to the Precious Stones, which play so important a part in the decorative arts. The intrepid coal-miner, whose advent is but of recent date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Heat of the Comstock Mines Classic Reprint written by John A. Church and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Heat of the Comstock Mines These high temperatures appear to be partly due to the usual sources of heat in mines, and partly to chemical action in the rock, for the average depth in which the heat rises one degree Fahrenheit from the surface downward varies with the ground. The copper-bearing lodes are therefore the hottest, and in Corn-wall heated ground is thought to be a good indication of copper, just as hot ground is looked upon in the Comstock mines as a favorable sign of ore. Temperature in the Comstock Mines. These readings were obtained by placing a thermometer in a drill-hole immediately after the hole was finished, and leaving it there for periods varying from ten minutes to half an hour. Very little or no difference was discovered between holes which were drilled wet or dry, or if wet, between holes which were naturally wet, and those which were made so artificially. No doubt there must be some difference due to these varying conditions, but they are so slight as to be completely masked by the steady flow of heat from the rock during the exposure of the thermometer. The holes in which the thermometers were placed were not sunk especially for this work of testing, but were the ordinary drill-holes made for the purpose of blasting the rock. They varied therefore from about ten inches to three feet in depth. No variations in the height of the thermometer were found to be caused by this difference of depth, and this also is quite reasonable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Mine Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Charles Howard Shinn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mine, Vol. 2 There is a very strong reason in the nature of mines and miners for many of the delays in properly defin ing a claim. Every part of a ledge is not equally rich. Ore occurs in seams, chimneys, or chutes, and as soon as a man struck it rich his first thought was usually to explore it until he could select and stake out the best three hundred feet. Nearly all of the early locators on the Comstock were trying to get the richest slice in the lode, and they kept away from the recorder's office; or if they entered a claim, they took care to leave it in such shape that it could be altered, like some of the Spanish land grants of California that were floated ten or fifteen miles, much to the subsequent profit of attorneys. Even when the metes and bounds were well defined the guileless miners could not always be de pended upon to leave them so. One of the pioneers mentions a mining suit in which the matter hinged upon the location of a stump that marked the corner. Judge and jury adjourned and went to look at the stump. It had been dug up bodily during the night and carried off, and the ground was so levelled that not the slightest clew remained. Each side accused the other, and the case was never decided. All the American mining camps have maintained in the case of quartz ledges the right to an inclined location - that is, the right to take a claim of definite size and follow it downward at any angle or angles, taking all the ore in the vein and in its legitimate branches. A miner, according to this idea, takes up a piece of ground simply for the lode, and goes wherever it goes. Spanish mining law, on the contrary, recog nises only the square location. According to the Span ish plan, as soon as a ledge passes beyond the boundary of a square piece of ground of given size it belongs to the man in whose tract it lies. One can easily see that the Spanish system must prevent much trouble and render the single-vein problem immaterial. In fact, it rules out of court nine tenths of all the cases that lead to lawsuits. Matters rapidly went from bad to worse on the Comstock until the most casual oh server would have seen a wild Walpurgis-night revel of conflicting claims of every Size, shape, and age tum bling over each other three and four deep. It is hardly surprising, for the Comstock was not the only vein on the side of Mount Davidson, nor even the most prominent one. The Virginia lode was nearly parallel, and other veins, too' many to name and hardly worth while digging up from the dust of forgotten records. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mine Is Thine Vol 2 of 3 written by Laurence W. M. Lockhart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mine Is Thine, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel The few people whom she knew at Caden abbia were impressed with this. It showed, they said, such freshness, simplicity, and soul for here was a lady, ordinarily involved in the turmoil of the great world of fashion, retiring without regret from its seductions, at the call of duty, and finding more than consolation in the sweet teachings of the beautiful and the sublime. All this factitious enthusiasm was focussed upon Esme, into whose confidence and affections it was her design to penetrate and since it appeared that freshness, simplicity, and soul would be the proper wear under the circumstances, she thus masqueraded accord ingly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mine Is Thine Vol 1 of 3 written by Laurence W. M. Lockhart and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mine Is Thine, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel I humbly desire, dear readers, to please you if I can, and therefore hasten to gratify an aspiration which lurks in all novel-readers' hearts - to "get into the thick business at once." So come with me and be summarily introduced to one or two principal personages of this little drama. Let us take them unawares, let us surprise them while they sit at meat, - eating, drinking, and (some of them, at least) making merry, on the margin of the Lake of Como, in one of the pleasantest hotels in Europe, the "Bellevue," at Cadenabbia. And do thou, old Time, turn back in thy flight a few short years, and suffer us to enter the table-d'hote room of the hotel in question, on the bright evening of an early summer day in 18 - . About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
