44 Dr. North on Fuet. 
werful to effect such an object. Because, he who waits to 
buy fuel, may not find motives sufficient to encourage the ex- 
ertions and labour of individuals, by paying the same, or 
nearly the same price for peat, as for other wood, unless it 
can be proved to be equally valuable in every point of view 
which can be taken of it, whereas, the fact is, that it is only 
equally valuable, for specific purposes, with a very few ex- 
ceptions. same is true respecting coal. Hence it is ev- 
d that without combined exertions, the public market 
cannot be supplied with this valuable fuel, at the present, if 
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it can at any future time : 
which would result from the introduction of a cheap fuel inte 
the market? Cannot the combined exertions of individuals 
in this enlightened age of improvements be had ? especially 
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strongly upon the consideration of those who may have capi- 
tal, and who may wish to employ it upon some of the. raw 
material country, whether by means of the late im- 
provements which have been made in rail-ways, loco-motive 
team engines, canals, and tow-baats, peat-wood may not be 
removed from some of the basins or cavities in which it 
grows, to some of our cities, and give a profit to those who 
may engage in such an enterprise. The present writer be- 
fieves that such an undertaking, might be made to succeed 
in some parts of this country, even at the present time. He 
believes also, that bituminous fuel is, ceteris paribus, for most 
purposes, upon the whole view of the case, the best, and that 
i, for the same reason that he believes a manageable horse 
to be best. And he presumes that such will ultimately be the 
general opinion, where stowage is easy. But the difference 
vent a difference of opinion on this subject. 
fuel is also the most abundant upon this earth, and nearer to 
* Can this | 
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true of England, where scarcely any other fuel is 
