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enormous amount of fuel. 
the production of gas for illumination. It is also the best fuel for 
steam engines, and is particularly well adapted for the use of locomo- 
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have not visited the spot where this asphaltum is found, but, hav- 
ing seen it associated with gypsum from Dorchester, N. B., am led to 
believe that it occurs above the coal formation of New Brunswick. 
[The facility with which this asphaltic coal melts down in the gas 
retorts has hitherto, we are informed, been an obstacle in the way of 
its use. —Es. 
16. Shooting Stars of August, 1850.—M. QuereLet states that 
according to the facts observed, the number of shooting stars per hour 
on the evening of the 9th of August, was about 60 for Brussels; on 
the evening of the 10th, 111 for Brussels, 180 for Markree, Ireland, 
and 58 for Rome. The direction was the same for all these places. 
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