ON CANDLES, TALLOW, AND FUEL. 397 



tallow, sea-coal by the chaldron at Cambridge, charcoal by 

 the load at Cambridge, sedge by the hundred, turves by the 

 thousand, sea-coal by the chaldron, and charcoal by the load 

 at Eton, charcoal by the load, quarter and sack at Oxford, 

 sea-coal by the chaldron at Oxford, firewood by the load, 

 and faggots by the hundred and sometimes by the thousand. 



There are also decennial averages of all these tables, except 

 the last. 



