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with coafs in the eaftern part by the mhics of Carmeaux, in 

 the department of Tarn. The prod lifts of thcfe mines are 

 embarked on the Tarn, and enter with that river into the 

 northern part of the department of La Haute-Garonne. But 

 the difficiikies which occur in the navigation of the Tani 

 greatly increafe the price of the coals of Carmeaux, This 

 inconvenience might be removed without much expenfe. We 

 muft therefore hope that meafures will be purfued to remove 

 ihefe obilacles, which are equally prejudicial to indullry, tlo 

 commerce, and to all the confumers of thei'e departments. 

 The coals deftined for Touloufe and the fouthcrn part of the 

 department are depofited at Port Saint-Sulpicc, from which 

 they are tranfporied by land carriage, ;/ 



Deparhnent of Gers, 



This department, in which no coal mines are known, can 

 obtain this fuel only by land carriage from the entrepots of 

 Touloufe, or from fome of the ports of La Garonne in ils 

 northern part. 



• ' Department of La Gironde. 



Cofle(Jlionp of bituminous foffil wood depofited in flrata of 

 fand have been difcovered in fcveral places in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bourdcaux. k^ this fo(hl wood feerns to be difperfed 

 in great abundance, it would be of advantage to purfue the 

 refearebes which have been niade, with more conftancy tha^i 

 i»as hitherto been the cafe. ; , i- ; . m ,•.,;,., j 



Tbefe rcfearches might not conda6\ ,tp the (lifcoreiy ,of\a 

 ■fjoal mine; but the fofhl wood might be ufed with great ad- 

 vantage as fuel in diticrent operations for which wood is em- 

 ployed. . : ., .. ,,f 



There are no coal rpincsr worked in this. department, ■ ut 

 it receives by the Garonne the coals of Carpieaux. This fuel 

 might alfo be procured with more eafe from the abundajU 

 coal mines which are known biitwecn Teralfon andBergerac, 

 on the banks of the Vcfere and the Dordogne, if the naviga- 

 tion of thcfe rivers were rendered eafier. ■■ 1 



This department might receive alfo by the moutlj of , the 

 Gironde the produfts of the rich .mines of the departments 

 of the North, An exchange of the coals, iron works, and 

 of ^ variety of other arliclei nmnuladtured in thcfe. depart- 

 ments, for the wines and brandy of the Bordelais, vvhicli mt 

 in recpieft in the whole North, might be made bv the French 

 naval trade as well as the Englifli. Ft is even probable that 

 we (liould obtain great advantages for the ironmongery trade 

 iu iudia, in eonfcquence of the low price at which the nia- 

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