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dec forges, air furnaces, distilleries, aud: breweries, it is 
ecidedly superior to any coal _I have ever used, in point of 
urability and its capacity to produce clean, sharp work, Is 
ste less sulphur and slate than the Susquehannah or 
Lackawana, but whether less than the Schuylkill cannot 
State, except from report, having never used it. 
* Tam satisfied that more work can be done with it; ina 
— a of time, than with any other coal Iam acquainted | 
it 
New York, July 15, 1825. (Signed) WM. BARKER: ~ 
«di, ete aetsirs, brass founder, &c. of Philadel- 
yhia. " certify, that I have been in. the use of the Lehigh coal 
r several years, for brazing and melting brass and copper j 
and my experience authorizes me to say, that in brazing or 
soldering, my hands can do ina given time, with one half the 
expense, three times as much work as they can ein any 
other kind of coal that I have ever used. And for ifeling 
kind of metal, one fire will answer the place of eight fires 
of charcoal, at no greater expense than each fire of char- 
coal ; ;—that taking into view t.e great soving of expense of 
fuel, and the very greatadditional quantity of work my hands 
can "do with Lehigh coal more than any other kind, | think 
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it invaluable eather for pemeg or brazing. 
 haaeass ‘ay 10th, 1824. THOS. BARNHURST. 
« | Samuel Heston, of Bucks county, have followed the bu- 
siness of a blacksmith for thirty years, and until the year 1819 
was in the habit of using charcoal and Richmond coal. Dur- 
the war I obtained a parcel of Lehigh coal for trial, but could 
do nothing with it and considered it a worthless article. In 
the year 1819, I made a visit to Mauch Chunk and there had 
an opportunity of seeing this coal properly used. Ib 
some of it back with me in my wagon, and have been in the 
use of it ever since, hauling it Pa hiladelphia a distance of 
Fe s, rather than purchase charcoal in my neighbour- 
_ Ican do more work with one bushel of the coal than 
any man can do with three bushels of Richmond coal or six 
bushels of charcoal, In short, I consider the discovery of 
h coal one of the most important ever made in this coun- 
try, and should hardly be tempted now to use any other if it 
were given me for nothing. When I went up to Mauch Chunk 
for curiosity, | had sold out all my stock, intending to move 
