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1. Coal is never found issuing in veins from the interior of the planet, like gold and silver; nor filling irregular cross crevices in limestone, like lead; nor spread abroad in lakes of hardened lava, like basalt and greenstone; nor embedded in clay, crystallizing upward from the walls and bottoms of deep wide fissures, as bunches of grapes, or in bundles of pipes, like the haematite iron ores; nor lying exposed upon the surface in blocks, like native copper, or meteoric iron; but always as a thin sheet or stratum, extending through the hills as far as the hills extend, and inclosed between similar sheets of other kinds of rock.
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Broad Top, New York, United States, Hudson River, Beaver River, Ohio River, Chestnut Ridge, Alleghany Mountain, Red Bank, Sharp Mountain, Alleghany River, Bald Eagle, Mauch Chunk, New England, Southern Virginia, Western Virginia, Wind Gap, Father Hennepin, Federal Creek, Jacob's Creek, Montgomery County, New River, Niagara Chasm, North Mountain, Pine Creek
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