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XLI. A general View of the Coal Mines worked in France, 

 of their different Products, and the Means of ctrcuLittng 

 them. By C. Lefebvke, Member of the Council of 

 Mines y of the Pbilomatic Society^ &lc. &fc, 



[Continued from p. 164.] 



Department of La Cote d'Or. 



OOME indications of coal have been announced here, and 

 particularly in the communes of Arefne, Turcey, Montbard, 

 and Chevauney. They deferve to be examined ; and Cham- 

 peaux, engineer of mines, now employed in that diftri6t, 

 will no doubt give fome accurate information on the fub- 

 jeft : but hitherto no coal mines have been worked in thia 

 department ; it can receive its coals from Blanzi by the canal 

 of Charolloiri, and by going up the Saone as far as Saint- 

 Jean-de-L6ne, where the canal of Burgundy begins. 



Department of the C6tes-du-Nord. 



No coals have yet been found in this department. Indi- 

 cations of coal have been announced near Lannion and 

 Quimper-Gaezence, in the neighbourhood of Pontrieux ; 

 tut no attention has been paid to them. It is fupplied there- 

 fore only by means of its fea- ports, which may receive the 

 coal brought from the mines of Litry, in the Calvados, and 

 thofe which abound in the northern departments, which 

 may be conveyed by land to the canals which terminate at 

 the fea. 



Department of La Creufe. 



Several coal mines (14) are worked in this country, which 

 is ftill little known in a mineralogical point of view, and 

 vhich appears worthy of being carefully examined. The 

 communes where coal mines in a (late of working are found, 

 are thofe of Couchezotte, Bofmoraud, Vavory, St. Palais, 

 and Fautmazuras. 



Thouch iheir produftion, according to the information 

 obtained" by the Council of Mines, is eflimaied in general at 

 326,000 myriagrammes, it certainly exceeds that cjuantity, 

 becaufe fcvcral of the mines have not yet been worked with 

 proper a(5^ivity. The mean price of the coals at the pit is 

 10 cents per myriagramme. 



Thefe mines are not much worked, becaufe there are very 

 few means of confumption. 



If the Creufe, which is faid to be navigable as fivr as 

 Gueret, could be rendered navigable for boats to Ahun, it 



would 



