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172. Jarman on Gas Lights. 
A friend of mine works his glass manufactory by it through 
the nights of winter, and has a gasometer of his own. One 
of the taverns in Bristol is lighted by its own gasometer ; 
and most of the coffee-houses in London are lighted by the 
the gas, by passing it through lime-water, is general; but a 
person at Exeter. in Devonshire has obtained a patent for 
ve not tried it at Bristol. 
any surplus. profit is to be applied to the reduction of 
he price for lighting the public lamps, as a remuneration to 
the public for permitting us to carry our mains (i. e. our 
main-pipes) through the streets. aE 
No accident has ever happened in Bristol since the works 
began; except that one evening an unlucky mouse got into 
the first pipe, and by moving a valve, prevented the” gas 
from passing into the mains, and consequently all the lamps 
went out, and the city was in darkness for half an hour}; 
but it happened to be early in the evening and not very dark; 
and a repetition of the accident is now eis prevented. 
Bath, Chelienham, and many other towns, are now light- 
ed by gas. I believe fifty or sixty acts of Parliament have 
passed incorporating companies for this purpose ; and when 
