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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
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At
last,
one
day,
long,
long
after
man
had
been
living
on
the
earth,
and
had
been
burning
wood
for
fires,
and
so
gradually
using
up
the
trees
in
the
forests,
it
was
discovered
that
this
black
stone
would
burn,
and
from
that
time
coal
has
been
becoming
every
day
more
and
more
useful.
Without
it
not
only
should
we
have
been
without
warmth
in
our
houses,
or
light
in
our
streets
when
the
stock
of
forest-wood
was
used
up;
but
we
could
never
have
melted
large
quantities
of
iron-stone
and
extracted
the
iron.
We
have
proof
of
this
in
Sussex.
The
whole
country
is
full
of
iron-stone,
and
the
railings
of
St.
Paul's
churchyard
are
made
of
Sussex
iron.
Iron-foundries
were
at
work
there
as
long
as
there
was
wood
enough
to
supply
them,
but
gradually
the
works
fell
into
disuse,
and
the
last
furnace
was
put
out
in
the
year
1809.
So
now,
because
there
is
no
coal
in
Sussex,
the
iron
lies
idle,
while
in
the
North,
where
the
iron-stone
is
near
the
coal-
mines,
hundreds
of
tons
are
melted
out
every
day.
Again,
without
coal
we
could
have
had
no
engines
of
any
kind,
and
consequently
no
large
manufactories
of
cotton
goods,
linen
goods,
or
cutlery.
In
fact,
almost
everything
we
use
could
only
have
been
made
with
difficulty
and
in
small
quantities;
and
even
if
we
could
have
made
them
it
would
have
been
impossible
to
have
sent
them
so
quickly
all
over
the
world
without
coal,
for
we
could
have
had
no
railways
or
steamships,
but
must
have
carried
all
goods
along
canals,
and
by
slow
sailing
vessels.
We
ourselves
must
have
taken
days
to
perform
journeys
now
made
in
a
few
hours,
and
months
to
reach
our
colonies.
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