United States 220,166 } 420,166 „ Lignites and inferior Coals 200,000 } British Possessions in North America 2,200 Great Britain 3,000 France 2,000 Belgium 468 Rhenish Prussia and Saarbrück 1,550 Westphalia 400 Bohemia 620 Saxony 66 The Asturias, in Spain 310 Russia 11,000 Islands of the Pacific and Indian Ocean Unknown. The American continent, then, contains much more extensive coal-fields than Europe; it possesses very nearly two square miles of coal-fields for every five miles of its surface; but it must be added that these immense fields of coal have not, hitherto, been productive in proportion to their extent. The following Table represents the annual produce of the collieries of America and Europe:-- Tons. British Islands (in 1870) 110,431,192 United States 14,593,659 Belgium (in 1870) 13,697,118 France (in 1864) 10,000,000 „ (in 1866) 11,807,142 Prussia (in 1864) 21,197,266 Nassau (in 1864) 2,345,459 Netherlands (in 1864) 24,815 Austria (in 1864) 4,589,014 Spain 500,000 We thus see that the United States holds a secondary place as a coal-producing country; raising one-eleventh part of the out-put of the whole of Europe, and about one-eighth part of the quantity produced by Great Britain.