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"
No
,
my
friend
,
"
replied
Harding
.
"
However
,
"
resumed
Gideon
Spilett
,
"
you
do
not
deny
that
some
day
the
coal
will
be
entirely
consumed
?
"
"
Oh
!
the
veins
of
coal
are
still
considerable
,
and
the
hundred
thousand
miners
who
annually
extract
from
them
a
hundred
millions
of
hundredweights
have
not
nearly
exhausted
them
.
"
"
With
the
increasing
consumption
of
coal
,
"
replied
Gideon
Spilett
,
"
it
can
be
foreseen
that
the
hundred
thousand
workmen
will
soon
become
two
hundred
thousand
,
and
that
the
rate
of
extraction
will
be
doubled
.
"
"
Doubtless
;
but
after
the
European
mines
,
which
will
be
soon
worked
more
thoroughly
with
new
machines
,
the
American
and
Australian
mines
will
for
a
long
time
yet
provide
for
the
consumption
in
trade
.
"
"
For
how
long
a
time
?
"
asked
the
reporter
.
"
For
at
least
two
hundred
and
fifty
or
three
hundred
years
.
"
"
That
is
reassuring
for
us
,
but
a
bad
look-out
for
our
great
-
grandchildren
!
"
observed
Pencroft
.
"
They
will
discover
something
else
,
"
said
Herbert
.
"
It
is
to
be
hoped
so
,
"
answered
Spilett
,
"
for
without
coal
there
would
be
no
machinery
,
and
without
machinery
there
would
be
no
railways
,
no
steamers
,
no
manufactories
,
nothing
of
that
which
is
indispensable
to
modern
civilization
!
"
