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Excerpt from Second Report of the Commissioners for Inquiring Into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts, Vol. 2 B. The absolute amount of fresh air led into individual coal mines appears to me to be generally insufficient for the support of health; and, though the miner cannot expect to obtain below ground an atmosphere such as can be commanded above, still the length of the air-courses, extending many miles without a particle of fresh air entering, except at a single aperture, its progressive deterioration, the amount of impurity it attains long before its escape, and the emana tions from the goaves, which are immense reservoirs, in general of fire-damp, or other impurities, as well as the explosions that ensue from time to time, all attest the great importance of the details of these circumstances being more minutely ascertained and recorded, with a view to improvement, than is practicable under present arrangements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.