On the Anthracite Region, Sc. of Pennsylvania. 61 
portion of this stream has been transferred to an elevated 
prietors of, about 120 dwellings and buildings of every de- 
scription, including a large hotel, a store, two furnaces, a 
grist mill, and several saw mills: about 800 men are em- 
ployed by the company. Stricter moral’ eee are here 
subscribed to and observed, than could be enforced by a 
state, or the general government, as the penalty of violation 
is dismissal, without reprieve, from avery desirable service, 
and the ejectment of tenants. at will from their dwellings. 
ippling houses, and the retail of ardent Spirits, are not 
tolerated. re is but one tavern and store in the village, 
nd they are owned = and under the control of, the aepee: 
ae ‘Drunkards are not suffered to remain. Abuse or neg- 
lect of their wisi and cruelty to cattle, are grounds of 
dismissal. There isno regular place of worship, as clergy- 
men of every rl mc are invited to preach, and dissi- 
pation is prohibited on the sabbath. By a small annual con- 
tribution from each workman, and heads of families in the 
village, an able physician is procured, who atiends the sick 
without tion 
Labourers, in the employment of the ¢ company, a re fur-- 
nished with daily rations of whiskey—a practice to be de- 
precated, as inducing habits of intemperance. Beer should 
be substituted, as was once contemplated. More than an 
equivalent in money is now offered to those who abstain from 
ardent spirits, so unnecessary for the performance of labour, 
which sree eeae enhances the zeceipts of those who accept 
of the 
The came have a small furnace in operation, which pro- 
_ duces daily about 3500 pounds of cas’ The ore used 
is of a good > procured twenty miles below, near the 
Lehigh. A ton of coal is exchanged at the furnace for the 
same weight of + ore, Limestone, necessary for a flux, is far- 
nished at the same rate. <A third part ee aeons 
_ near the village, is mixed with the purchased ore. The 
workman informed me that by blending a tenth — 
pounded an’ anthracite with charcoal, in smelting, a third more 
work is done in a given time, than would be produced by 
charcoal alone. Pigs are melted for castings entirely by 
pounded anthracite, producing better castings and great di- 
n of labour. A stronger blast, however, is necessary 
