Excerpt from Abstract of a Report on Illinois Coals: With Descriptions and Analyses, and a General Notice of the Coal Fields Sir: In compliance with your order to prepare and submit to you, for publication, an abstract of the observations made in the Illinois Coal fields during the progress of the State Geological Survey, I respectfully beg leave to report, that I have attended to that duty. In the following pages you will find a succinct, but complete, description of every Coal that has been analyzed in the State Laboratory up to this date; together with numerous sections of the rocks with which the beds are associated in different parts of the State. 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.