Scenes And Incidents From The Life Of A Practical Miner
With A Treatise On The Ventilation Of Coal Mines

 ■ == life w-Y™816 xntl'°,iuee s particular incident that occurred to myself when jested by the overman to go and Je alX the air on tbs S I m£llt’ as tIie authorities wanted to change 5 Saturday morning. Well, I was about a mile and three- myiTf m±k <"? t W SWt’ ,U1<1 “Ot & 1Wn« SOU1 “ this d““ the reaeErrij? t’TT! “y *“<“■« Iowe’ Å e- a ^»nd work T ,»,fl t J jl ; b “ haPPened that »l>en I had nearly done mv ZåiwH 4 i , ?LeantlIe’an<1 by°h““ P“‘ "V own out, and herel eft in the dark at that vast distance from the outlet. Bein« so situated my attention was particularly attracted to a variety of sounds £suin» from he nexghbourmg strata. I listed in silence to the disXZtS s^Æound aSlrfd '“e °f ‘\e loud“‘-ton«l °f th« whistling euiiHUb, ± lounci that all of them were fissurp« o-itrinn- • .• ° which T fplf rh'cHnn+Kr a r “»»uies giving out their native gas, i to »»fs “ ha,:'J' tNow’ rid to a contemplative mind! And need I tell you, fellow^oXmen ^haTl owe all the little I know to that peculiar incident. It was the means of unfoldmg o my view the true principle of ventilating I coal Xe In fiist place, I communicated my ideas to an intelligent schoolmaster and engaged him to get me the best works on Chemistry Geology and a^d J? find °Ut the secrete of these s^ng earth and nreXearS • S aut! ^servation, I satisfied myself that the fou 1 too tÄ 18 °f gaSeS in varied Potion. And I bulk Ä ™ W gaS llb^rated in a coal mine materially adds to the for its progressive route H ° ^1’ 1fKextr^ and amPJe provision be not made <u.-cast nk XT ?Ugh ?he mme’ and back t0 fche furnace and 7 j ‘ , ’•, 111 com°19n atmosphere is composed of 21 parts oxy «en and lrit 4 ? again to unite with the atmosphere. IW, yoTwüUbs^rJeThat itTpat e<Win’ XesVated ™nteinin« fou1' sMes of strata, all of which? in mile 44 euhip A + • ’ y , t ? find at that ratl° that at the end of one body it was It has been in ° t iein^ne i,snot that susceptible at the sZe time Z naHi 1 ?eprived °f its tested by thissiinnle pVi p ’ +°St at’ e astlcltX> ;U1^ this may easily be many thousand ciihie feS :~^easure y°ur ai^ and you will find so from the do^t nit A? ' N°W’ C°me to One Pülar square inches A <,Ji ’ PUt lU a stoPPlnS» leaving an ajjerture of 144 nl dÄn Ä°U r°re- J I“" WU' &d one pillar from the furnneo- 1 • 1 t æ ^PPæg» P«tit in at place, and you will find von 1 '* ‘^aJn ’ne^s}u’e your air at the same you will hild yOuhavenotOne-thmlof the quantity. Now