In the little work now before the reader I have endeavoured to recount, without going into unnecessary detail, the wonderful story of a piece of coal.

E.A.M.
THORNTON HEATH,

February, 1896.

CONTENTS.

I. THE ORIGIN OF COAL AND THE PLANTS OF WHICH IT IS COMPOSED

II. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE COAL-BEARING STRATA
III. VARIOUS FORMS OF COAL AND CARBON
IV. THE COAL-MINE AND ITS DANGERS
V. EARLY HISTORY—ITS USE AND ITS ABUSE