236 Notices of Coal in China. 
it contains is analogous, though inferior to the American anthra- 
cite ; it burns intensely with a small blue flame, its ashy residuum 
being of a reddish color. That in use at Shanghai is of this 
description. It is brought from Siachau, via Chapt to Ningpo, 
where it costs $12 per ton, about one third more (the dealers say) 
than at Shanghai. Its consumption is very limited, being almost 
wholly confined to the manufacture of brass tobacco pipes. e 
best quality of this coal, that which most resembles anthracite, 
is well adapted for grates and stoves, being free from fumes 0 
sulphuretted hydrogen, and is more wholesome than the bitumi- 
nous coal usually imported from Liverpool and Sydney. 
Numerous varieties are produced in the province of Kiangsi, 
slaty, cannel, bituminous and anthracite. Portions of the latter 
are sold at Sachau as the kwang coal. A considerable quantity 
from the mines in Kwangsin is carried over the mountains into 
the province of Chehkiang. It is found abundant also in Fung- 
ching and Chingkiang. he proximity of the coal measures in 
this province to ferruginous ore and lime, facilitates the manufac- 
ture of iron. Some of the mountains which support the subter- 
ranean treasures, afford disintegrated granite, of which the cele- 
brated porcelain is fabricated. The furnaces in Kingteh-chin, the 
great seat of this branch of industry, are chiefly heated by coal 
procured from adjacent mines. The generic designation for the 
mineral produced from the Chehkiang mines, is Kiangshan coal, 
e of the district in Kiichau fu, in the S. W. part of the 
province, whence it is chiefly derived. A large quantity however 
comes from the conterminous districts of Singan, and Changshan. 
The principal mines are at the Wiakwei mountain, near Kitung, 
and at the Chenkia lake in the first named district. ‘There are 
several varieties, that most valued is termed ‘ wood coal ;”’ it eX- 
hibits, where it is laminated with the fibres of the bituminated 
peculiar properties of other varieties are designated by their names 
as ‘‘ stinking coal,” “crackling,” and “ smoky coal ;”—an inferi 
quality comes from one of the mines, abounding in sulphuretted 
hydrogen, and closely resembles the coal found near Canton. 
