PROCESS OF 
CARBONIZING TURF 
WITHOUT CLOSE VESSELS, 
THE PEAT FURNISHING ITS OWN CALORIC, 
WITHOUT PRODUCING ASHES. 
By DOMINIQUE ALBERT, LL.D. 
Communicated by Mr. Jonn Davies, M.W.S. (Read March 
5th, 1839.) 
When, in 1835, I built my present works at 
Cadishead, I was chiefly induced to choose the 
place on account of the proximity of both turba- 
ries, Chat Moss and Barton Moss, having previ- 
ously ascertained that I could make with turf as 
good charcoal as with wood. 
As the charcoal I wanted was for some chemi- 
cal purpose other than to be used as fuel, the 
first condition of the carbonization was, that it 
should produce a vegetable black, free from the 
mineral substance mixed with it, as is always 
