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ant beds within the reach of a skilful and a research. 
Your memorialists are free to declare, that such is their eon- 
fidence in the numerous indications which are Pe and 
tigations by a set of careful borings in the appropriate strata 
and otherwise, they would not hesitate to employ them, but 
as has been before stated, they possess no funds to apply to 
so valuable a purpose. That it is of the utmost value, it 
would be superfluous on this occasion to attempt to: prove. 
The new branches of industry that would ensue upon the 
opening of coal mines in the western part of the State; the 
arrestation of the rapid destruction of wood fuel; the abund- 
ance and cheapness of the finest qualities of coal for domestic 
and manufacturing purposes; the augmentation of canal 
revenue for its transportation; the stoppage of the present 
supply from abroad and the exportation of it from our own 
State; all these circumstances are of obvious and immedi- 
ate application to the reasonableness of the proposition, that 
no eins time should a lost in commencing the investi- 
on ee pase to the present supply from abroad, your som ome 
alists conceive that they would not do justice to the 
if the following statements, which they are enabled to feels 
from what they deem sufficient a were withheld. 
uring the seven years preceding the year 1828, and in- 
cluding the years 1821 and 1898, five million seven hun- 
dred and ninety-four thousand one hundred and sixteen 
bushels of bituminous coal were imported into hie United 
States, the whole of which might as well have been furnish- 
ed from the coal districts of this State and supplied by the 
coasting trade from the port of New-York. But this great 
amount is inconsiderable when we look at the consumption 
which an increased population and a reduction of the price 
in a very short time effect. It is estimated that about 
eight hundred million bushels of bituminous coal are raised 
annually for general purposes in Great Britain. 
As to the present annual consumption of coal in this city, 
the Blowing approximation may be considered as not far 
he truth. 
Engh and Scotch bituminous coal, chaldrons, 20,000 
20,000 
Lehigh cad Schuylkill Anthracite. 16,000 
