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The disengagement of all these gradually transforms ordinary or bituminous coal into anthracite, to which the various names of glance-coal, coke, hard-coal, culm, and many others, have been given. There is an intimate connection between the extent to which the coal has in different regions parted with its gaseous contents, and the amount of disturbance which the strata have undergone.
"Well well, he'll have tears in his eyes before I go after him!" And with that there was the rasp of a third "niggling" match, faintly-heard, far in, a momentary reflection, a tiny glance-coal, in the fissure's leering mouth! And and, following that, a shriek! A shriek, headlong, sinking and pitching dying like a falling star, as if some clutch were stifling it. "Hea-vens!"
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