1^4 The Ottawa Naturalist. [January 



It will burn in almost any stove, or in the open grate, and it can 

 be regulated at will. Industrial coke is made by carbonization, it 

 welds steel and iron admirably and will stand burden in furnace. 

 The by-products are valuable ; these are obtained from coke mak- 

 ing- and distillation. 



The machines and diggers used are from Europe and have 

 many medals for efficiency; they are the first imported into Canada. 

 The Newington plant will turn out 50 tons of fuel daily as soon 

 as it is in regular working order. 



Having armed ourselves with a quantity of the beautiful pink 

 moss or sphagnum which forms a large proportion of this peat in 

 its original state and which covers the surface of this bog for 

 thousands of acres, with here and there scrubby spruces, larches 

 and cedars, pitcher plants, and many swamp shrubs - Labrador 

 tea, sheep's laurel, cassandra, andromeda, blueberries, etc. — we 

 started on our way back. 



At the works we were presented with blocks of peat in its 

 finished state, ready for our grate fires, the scent of which would 

 take some of us back in memory to the old home across the sea, 

 and the hills of Wicklow would rise before our mind's eye, and 

 care and sorrow be a thing of the past. 



All the employees of the works were photographed, grouped 

 in front of the buildings, and we took leave of our entertaining 

 friends. 



A brisk walk back to the town of Newington took but a short 

 time, and we were ready for the good dinner which mine host ot 

 the " Newington House" had provided. There were no scientific 

 disagreements on this excellent repast, but it was pronounced 

 very good, and the pumpkin pie "just as good as a New England 

 housewife could make." 



We discovered in our walks that the town possessed four 

 churches and a first-class public library (the latter without the 

 help of Carnegie, but erected as a memorial to a worthy citizen), 

 a cheese factory, with a bright, business-like proprietor, who in- 

 formed us that the cheese was sent direct to Glasgow, Scotland; 

 and, on sampling it, we found it very good. The business places 

 were filled with up-to-date goods, and the post office evidently 

 does a large mail business. 



