eating the iron, until about six months ago we were induced 
totry t Lehigh coal, and find it somuch. superior to any 
other, that we now useit exclusively, and we believe there 
is asavingin the expense of about filty per cent. in favour of 
the Lehigh at the present prices of each, as we can perform 
the same business with two tons of the as that we could 
with eighty-five bushels of Virginia. 
“ Our workmen also prefer the Lehigh as they have much 
less trouble in | keeping their fire with it thanany other that we 
have used.” 
JAMES & MAXWELL ROWLAND. 
Philada. 5th Mo. 22d, 1824 
“We have made experiments in all the dalpre kinds of 
coal soldin the New York market, and find the Lehigh bet- 
ter for our use than any other. It does not ee as quick 
as e ihe Schuylkill, but lasts much longer; and Mr. Hitcheock, 
the master blacksmith, thinks it the best coal he ever worked.” 
Ian er ogee ated obedient servant, 
(Signed) M LYNDS, 
Agent for baling B-3 Y. 7 Prison. 
Mount Pleasant, N. Y. October 2, 1825. 
“This is to certify, that I have: tay used at one of m my 
blacksmith forges, for some tim a 
adopting it in all of or ‘ind that one b 
it will last longer than two of Virginia or Liverpool, it eng 
cleaner, and the smith likes it better, and can safely 
say that I have had a. larger day’s work done with that si 
than I have had with any other for ten year = 2 
S GLEASON, 
« N. B. I find you must alter your below tue- 
making it about twice as large as is common, and b 
fire with a little charcoal or wood at the bottom, < 
any dead coal get to the tue-iron and you have no d 
and when you leave your fire, put in a small pi 
iff : 
piece of wood 
or charcoal, to keep it while at dinner, &c.—A httle instrue- 
tion is” necessary toa new eee, or he is oe s pe too” 
soon Esc ed.” 
Philada, May Tth, 1824, 
- “ Thereby certify that I have, for twenty yeats 
past, been 
ned to the use of anthra¢ite coal, from nearly all the” 
ormations of that description in this ees pom 
Sally warranted in saying, that, for the purposes of 
