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GAS, NATURAL. 



West Virginia, Open season, for deer, September 1 

 to January 15 ; quail, October 15 to January 1 ; tur- 

 key, ruffed and pinnated grouse, September 1 to 

 February 1 ; wild duck, geese, and brant, November 

 1 to April 1 ; Jack salmon, white salmon, June 15 to 

 May 1 ; brook- trout, landlocked salmon, January 1 

 to September 1. 



Wisconsin, Open season, for deer, October 1 to De- 

 cember 1 ; woodcock, July 10 to January 1 ; quail, 

 partridge, ruffed, pinnated, and sharp-tailed grouse, 

 wood, mallard, and teal duck. August 15 to January 

 1 ; wild pigeons protected within three miles of nest- 

 ing-place. Brook-trout may be taken April 15 to 

 August 15 ; black bass and wall-eyed pike, May 1 to 

 February 1. 



GAS, NATURAL. Inflammable gas, capable of 

 producing light and heat, is generated in vast 

 quantities within the earth in the vicinity of 

 carbonaceous deposits, and often in connection 

 with beds of rock-salt. The " eternal fires of 

 Baku," on the shores of the Caspian Sea 

 (whence, by-the-way, it is now proposed to lay 

 a pipe-line across the desert to the Black Sea), 

 have burned for many centuries. In the Chi- 

 nese province of Szechuen, inflammable gas 

 rises from beds of rock-salt at a depth of 1,500 

 feet or more, and has long been used for il- 

 lumination and for evaporating brine, bamboo 

 pipes being used as conduits. At Marmaro, 

 Hungary, a deposit of salt at a depth of 120 

 feet yields a supply of gas sufficient for light- 

 ing the mines. In the States of New York, 

 Ohio, and Pennsylvania, natural gas has for 

 about thirty years been used to a considerable 

 extent, notably in Fredoniaand Bloomfield, N". 

 Y., Erie, Pa., and East Liverpool, Ohio. The 

 inn at Fredonia was illuminated with natural 

 gas in 1824, on the occasion of Lafayette's visit 



