Author: ROYAL COAL COMMISSION
Title: Maps and Sections to Accompany the Report of the Royal Coal Commission
Description: Royal Coal Commission, 1871. Folio. 15 maps, some coloured, most folding. original portfolio worn. Many of the maps are torn along the folds, but all are complete. One of the conclusions of the report [not included here] reads "It comes pretty much to this. Professor Stanley Joyous was right, and we are burning our coal-fields up. If everything goes on as at present, our supply will be done by the year 2000. If we get down to 4,000 feet, which is possible, but will be costly and dangerous, and if the population increases in a decreasing ratio, it may last till 2230. Long before either time the price of coal will rise very sensibly indeed. There is a limit to the rise, of course, for at a certain price per ton foreign coal could be brought in > but still, all manufactures would be very severely affected. The best hope is in a new motor not requiring such a consumption of bottled sunlight to feed it, but that seems far off > and we fear we must look for- ward to a time when England will again be an agricultural country very much burdened with debt, and with a population, organized on Swiss principles, of about ten millions. The debt, as Mr. Gladstone advised, should be paid before that." It includes the large 4 sheet Geological and Statistical Map of the British Isles> England by A.C. Ramsay, Scotland by Archibald Geike and Ireland by Edward Hull.

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