62 On the Anthracite Region, §c. of Pennsylvania. 
for anthracite, than is required for charcoal. Sledge ham- 
mers, cast from meltings by anthracite, have been found suf- 
ficiently strong to be useful. ‘The coal is pounded in a wa- 
ter mill. A large furnace has recently been erected by the 
company, where castings for the rail-way will shortly be pro- 
duced. 
Several bodies of anthracite occur north-west from the 
coal beds of the Lehigh company, and about eleven miles 
from Mauch Chunk. The most extensive is located in the 
Beaver meadow, south of the Berwick turnpike. It has been 
ascertained to be more than fifty feet in thickness, and of a 
quality equal, if not superior, to the best procured by the 
Lehigh Company. A considerable quantity has been raised 
this season, and conveyed to the Lehigh for shipment. By 
a rail road, this coal may be brought at a moderate expense 
to navigable waters, and be productive. 
In travelling north from the Berwick turnpike, I ascertain- 
ed, that veins of coal range in a northern direction from the 
eaver meadow for many miles. One was mentioned as ex- 
isting three miles from Lowry town. 
Coal has not yet been discovered in Pennsylvania to the 
north-west of the Lehigh, but as it isan unexplored region of 
the same geological character, rocks, &c. with the anthra- 
eminences of Sullivan and Ulster in the State of New-York, 
connecting the Catskill mountains with the anthracite ranges 
of Pennsylvania, with the exception of a vein of anthracite, 
said to have been recently discovered in the Delaware water- 
gap ; that mineral does not occur within ten miles of the 
Blue or Kittetany mountains, or of the Shawangunk, a part 
of the same chain, and which presents similar rocks. 
improvement, and may, at a future period, be the medium of 
conveyance for coal found on its borders. : 
Between Mauch Chunk coal bed and Mount Carbon, a 
distance of eighteen miles, veins of coal running in a south- 
west tion occur. It is mountainous, unsettled, and little 
known. Me sae : See = 
