78 _ Anthracite Coal af Rhode-Island. 
The history of another natural production is equally curi- 
ous, namely, that of the tobacco plant. This plant was oncé 
_an insignificant production of a little island, but has since 
succeeded in diffusing itself through every climate, an 
its fascinating powers, it has also succeeded in subjecting 
of the inhabitants of every portion of the earth, to its 
dominion. And yet it is believed even by many of those 
mas use it, that the world would be better without than with it 
w-London, April, 1826. 
Art. Vi.—Anthracite Coal of Rhode-Island—remarks up- 
on its properties and economical uses: with an ee = 
notice of the anthracites of Pennsylvania, &c. ; the 
Editor.* Read before the Connecticut Academy of * arts 
and eeuces 
= r of this Journal, (Vol. X. p. 331,) some 
rem cnavkes drawn pehneipially from observation ad experience, 
were inserted, relative to the anthracite coal of Pennsylvania. 
The additional experience of two or three months, has con- 
firmed the views then expressed, only a few slight corrections 
or ns havi come necess 
In that paper, it was remarked : ‘* ¥ i ee able, at pres- 
ent, to say any thing of much importance, as to the Rhode- 
Yeland Es ame A quantity, which had sod promised for 
comparative experiments, not having arrived, I have not been 
able to compare it, with the oe anthracite: tear 
as regards the gas. I hope to make these trials before th 
season is through, and cannot doubt, that the Rhode-Island 
~ will prove an important addition to our national resour- 
es, especially with the aid of the practical knowledge, which 
meshes been so ey obtained, with respect to the use 
* I wish it to be understood, that my remarks and 
Rhode-Island coal, as a fuel valuable in domestic economy at cate ng the 
whi nd 
ming experiments apes the materials, which were frst di Be. sin, =p 
