The Burning Well Near the Featherstone Station in the Vicinity of Pontefract. In Boring for Coal the Sinkers Penetrated a Bed of Shale at a Depth of About 120 Feet Upon which the Water Previously Rising Through the Borehole Was Suddenly Ejected Like a Fountain to the Height It is Said of 30 Feet above the Surface of the Earth Impelled by the Violent Efflux of Gas which the Perforation Had Liberated from Its Cavernous Laboratory and on the Application of a Lighted Match (after the Subsidence of the Jet) Near the Surface of the Water which Covered the Orifice the Gas Escaping Through It

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