 On examining this subterranean wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward many hundred yards to the bed of coal : that it branched off into numerous chambers, where miners had carried on their different works : that these...  The traveller's guide through Ireland - Page 86by Joseph Robertson (of Edinburgh.) - 1806Full view - About this book
 | English periodicals - 1790 - 566 pages
...numerous chambers, where miners had carried on their different works : that thefe chambers were drefled in a workman-like manner : that pillars were left at proper intervals to fupport the roof: in fhort, it was found to be an extenfive mine, wrought by a fet of people at leaft... | |
 | Anne Plumptre - Ireland - 1817 - 452 pages
...that it branched oft" into various chambers where the miners had earned on their different works ; that pillars were left at proper intervals to support the roof; — in short, it was found to be an extensive mine, wrought by a set of people at least as expert in the business as the present generation.... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Elegiac poetry, English - 1818 - 242 pages
...chambers, where " the miners had pushed on their different works; " that pillars were left at different intervals to " support the roof; in short,' it was found to be u an extensive mine, wrought by a set of people at " least as expert in the business as the present... | |
 | 1819 - 414 pages
...hranched off into unmerous chamhers, where miners had earned on their different works; that these chamhers were dressed in a workman-like manner; that pillars...intervals to support the roof; in short, it was found to he an extensive mine, wrought hy a set of people at least as expert in husiness as the present generation.... | |
 | 1838 - 318 pages
...chambers which were esteemed so valuable as a<rain to be occupied by the workmen who discovered them. that these chambers were dressed in a workmanlike...support the roof. " In short, it was found to be an extensive mine, wrought by a set of people at least as expert in the business as the present generation.... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - Ireland - 1838 - 356 pages
...chambers which were esteemed so valuable as again to be occupied by the workmen who discovered them. that these chambers were dressed in a workmanlike...support the roof. " In short, it was found to be an extensive mine, wrought by a set of people at least as expert in the business as the present generation.... | |
 | Science - 1867 - 488 pages
...coal; that it branched off into various chambers when the miners had pushed on their different works ; that pillars were left at proper intervals to support the roof; in short was found to be an extensive mine, wrought by a set of people at least as expert in the business as... | |
 | Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - Ireland - 1870 - 680 pages
...Antrim," at p. 35, he mentions the discovery of ancient mining at Ballycastle. In 1770 he writes : — " On examining this subterranean wonder it was found...pillars were left at proper intervals to support the roofs. In short it was found to be an extensive mine wrought by a set of people at least as expert... | |
 | Belfast Naturalists' Field Club - 1874 - 456 pages
...left the morning before just beginning to tinge the eastern horizon. On examining this subterraneous wonder it was found to be a complete gallery, which...support the roof; in short, it was found to be an extensive mine, wrought by a set of people at least as expert in their business as the present generation.... | |
 | Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland - Ireland - 1878 - 710 pages
...Antrim," at p. 35, he mentions the discovery of ancient mining at Ballycastle. In 1770 he writes : — "On examining this subterranean wonder it was found...pillars were left at proper intervals to support the roofs. In short it was found to be an extensive mine wrought by a set of people at least as expert... | |
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