noun. The process of supplying or taking in coal for use: as, the coaling of a steamer or locomotive; a coaling-station or coaling-wharf.

verb. Present participle of coal.

"Albert could learn but very little of Opeki; nothing, indeed, but that it was situated about one hundred miles from the Island of Octavia, which island, in turn, was simply described as a coaling-station three hundred miles distant from the coast of California."

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