96 Anthracite Coal of Rhode-Island. 
agreeable in such weather. This day, (April 16, 1826,) has 
been one of that description ; the thermometer, out of doors, 
being oyer 50° of Fahr. A small fire of the oo 
, from four to six inches in depth, and sometimes 
burning freely when there-were not more than two inches of 
coal, hei inner doors being 5 open has diffused a mild and 
agreeable warmth a canara ly the whole house, pervading 
a space of more than eebeptonk be length, thirty in breadth, 
and twenty in 
J in height. 
In this manner, the family are enabled to occupy apart- 
_ Where they could not otherwise remain, without sepa-_ 
rate fires, and they pursue their — avocations dispersed 
freely, as in summer. To produce this desirable result, all 
-— - necessary, is to regulate ae fire with a little more care, 
— however, than is nec under similar circum- 
with open fires. The fel nail be supplied rather more 
feecuntly than in winter, and in smaller quantities, perhaps 
once in two hours, and the register drawer must be kept most 
ef the time shut. It is a mistake to suppose, that the anthracite 
fire will go out, unless there is a great mass of fuel. What- 
Garaay betas? the open grate, this is not the fact in the 
close stove ; and if, at any time, the fire has been suffered to 
decline, to that degree (as it sometimes happens) that the 
adding of more anthracite would extinguish instead of re- 
Viving it, then it is necessary to introduce a little ae 
and in a few minutes, it will be m a condition to receive 
anthracite to kindle it anew. It rarel ae) 
ever, that it is requisite to use charcoal, except once in the 
day, that is, on kindling the fire in the morning, nor is it ne- 
oN omg provided the fire has been suffered to burn 
the previous night. For the warming of large es- 
tablishments, hospitals, asylums for the insane, churches, 
colleges, hotels, &c. and where it is important for the pre- 
servation or or recovery af Bene to have = a uniform tempera- 
‘even 
ble to establish in New-England, or in Canada, the climate 
of the ame of pets or of the ee Even i in 
uthern 
states of this country, the anthracite, especially if burned 
— or in the cellar, one beni 
