Excerpt from Contributions From the Laboratory of the State University: An; On the True Composition of Coal, and on the Methods of Arriving at It; B. The Water-Supply of Columbia, Boone County, Missouri The color of the ash was pink, with numerous white specks in it; these latter, I think, were derived from the destruction of the organic matter of the Coal, and were originally part of the plants that formed it; they were mixed with the finely-pulverized brown oxide of the roasted Sulphuret, and with larger grains of a yellowish color, Which I am inclined to consider Clay. No remains of microscopic animal life were detected by me in the ash. 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.