344- P.':'^ general View of the 



per myriagramme. There is alfo abuudance of peat in the 

 canlons ot Heythnyfeu, and De Weert. 



. Df'p^artmenVof Monl-Blanc. 



- Til ere arc feveral coal mines in this country (38). Some 

 are worked in the territor\' of the communes of Entrevernes 

 n^-ar Annecv, Montmin, Novalaifc, Servolex, and Petit- 

 Ecrnard. Indications of coal have been announced alfo in 

 the canton of Mouticrs, Crufciiles, Valloires, and Gognin. 

 The annual produft of the coal mines worked in this depart- 

 ment may be eftimated at 120,000 myriagrammes per an- 

 num.' Thefe mines are fufceptible of improvement, but there 

 is no confumplion. The price of the coals at the mine is 

 5 cents per myriagramme. 



. -Xiipartment of Mont-Tonnsrei 



There are more than thirty coal mines known in this de- 

 partment (29). Several of them have been abandoned in 

 GonTequence of the war. The canlons molt abundant are 

 thofc of Lautereck, W,olfftein, and Obermofchel. 



The produLl of thefe mines may be edimated at about 

 4iJ^5,o,oo ti^yriagramtneS ; but if the confumption required, 

 it could be incrpafed. The quality of the coal varies. There 

 is very hf tie of it good ; but it is generally ufed for heating 

 ftovcs. The price at the mines is 8 cents per myriagramme. 



Thefe coals are confumed merely by the wants of the coun- 

 try, A confiderable quantity of them is employed for burn- 

 ing lime, either for building or for manure. They are em- 

 ployed alfo' in the fuiing of mercury, of which there is very 

 important mines in- this department; and for the purpofea 

 of evaporation in' the falt-works of Kreutznach. 



Department of ISIorbihan. 



The Mo,rbihan has no coals. Jt receives thofe which are 

 due up on the banks of the Loire, or of thie rivers united 



j.yilh It.. ■ , 



'■* , " ' ' ',. ' /\ ■ Detar'tment of La Mofelle. '\ , 



Some coal mjnes are worked in this department (30) in 

 the environs of the conmnunes of Oftcnbach and in the can- 

 tQn of Pctela'nge.' The ainuial produ6l of them may be efti- 

 rnated at 1 oo,-." bo- .riiyfi a grammes at Icalt. The coal is of a 

 very good (itii'Kty. ' it cods at ihe'mine9 cents per niyria- 

 granirtre. •"•'""• -^•' • . "■ ^ : ■ ■'* '• 

 . Department ofHhe Ttio Nethes. 



This depariuient.ha:? p,b cdal' mines; but it is fopplied 



with 



