Particulars of the Sinking, &c. of miliam-Pit. S75 



last, an acre of canes, and manufacturing the suoar, in this 

 district. Should the British legislature deem it^proncr to 

 emancipate the slaves on those islands, the planter there 

 may then be obliged to cultivate and plant his lands in the 

 manner practised here, or as potatoes are planted with the 

 plough ,„ the fields in England ; and there is scarce a doubt 

 but that they would in either wav succeed fullv as well as 

 Dy planting in holes. 



" Should political motives prevent the importation of 

 i.ast India sugars into England, it is even then of infinite 

 importance to the Company's territories to have the qualities 

 of their sugars improved, so as to render unnecessary^ the 

 importation of those of China and Batavia, large sums 

 being annually tlirown into those places for this commoditv ; 

 while we at the same time, possess every advantacre for 

 making his necessary article of the best qualitv, to the full 

 in as high a degree as either the Chinese or Dutch : besides 

 oiir own ,vants, we have every reason to imagine, that we 

 might soon be able to supply the Malabar coast, Persia, 



chfeflv? 'V'V'J' '"?':'' ^•^^'■'^^^' ^' P--^^^"^^ they are 

 chiefly supplied from China and Batavia." 



dh -^ ^i^'^'VlX'""' Particulars relative to the 

 Swkiug, ^c of IVdliam.PU, near the Sea-shore, at 



tZrnnl "' "'' ^'''l'"'y '^'^^""^ ^'"^«^'"' 



9Z o?f ''r K ' f'^ ^' ^'\'''^'' '^'y S"^ '^'' "^'^'" band 

 8cam of coa , about 1 1 feet thick (on the same dav, coals 



were shipped at the North Wall) of very excellent qua'itv 



and at about 92 fathoms from the surface to the boUom of 



[he coal_ lies immediately under an excellent reef of 



very hard white post, or freestone ; containing little water 



h^flT^r;. M ■?'""^y i ^^'^''^S^'" S^' feencrallv termed 

 mflammable a:r) issues from it: but, from an excellent 

 ventdation of atmospheric air, from the surface, improved 

 by the rarefaction of a large fire or lamp, the inflammable 

 matter is happily earned ofl. 



In sinking through diflferent posts of this freestone 

 several very strong seeds of such gas vented through "he 

 joints of the stone, which, when lighted by a candlerburnt 

 very violently, and exploded to a large Aame of fi^e ; and 

 id. T ?"""".^^ ^«^ 'f «^'f^^>ed. In pricking one of 

 tl'c^e seeds, the noise resembled (hut of a ercat waterfall ; 



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