Excerpt from The Fossil Flora of Great Britain, Vol. 2: Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Vegetable Remains Found in a Fossil State in This Country In the series of beds, the coal itself forms, in bulk, a very inconsiderable portion of the whole. Forty seams are enumerated, but the greater part of them are too thin to be worked to profit. 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.