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Quantity raised in the year 1854, 8,500,000 tons. 



YEARS. TONS. 



1864.-10,976,500. 



1865.-12,656,336. 



1866.-13,821,443. 



1867.-13,661,800. 



1868.-13,210,000. 



1869.-13,454,800. 



1870.-13,664,132. 



1871.-14,035,525. 



1872.-15,047,250. 



1873.-16,180,728. 



1874.-15,737,722. 



1875.— 14, 173, 143. («"''Lf|^trS:r') 



1876.-16,972,284. 



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1878.-17,417,118. 

 1879.-17,819,043. 

 1880.-21,165,580. 

 1881.-22,234,176. 

 1882.-22,817,378. 

 1883.-24,975,433. 



And now, ladies and gentlemen, I must apologise deeply 

 for having tried your patience, and wearied you, I fear, much 

 with this long dissertation upon coal. My only excuse is that 

 as it is a subject which I have been so long connected with, I 

 thought I might be able to afford some special information on it. 

 A further excuse I hope may be found for me, in the fact that it 

 is a subject of such vital importance to the great staple industry 

 of our old county of Cornwall. It would be a dark outlook 

 indeed if to the many other clouds in the horizon of the miner 

 was to be added this, the blackest of all, namely, the fear of 

 a large increase in the cost of our fuel, owing to too rapidly 

 decreasing coal reserves. Thanks to a bountiful nature, this, as 

 my figures have shewn, is not the case : and we may therefore 

 dismiss from our minds any apprehension on this account. 

 With this hopeful outlook of the " bottled-up sunshine" of 

 past ages, which still remains for the benefit of our miners and 

 the community at large, I will conclude the subject. 



