114 Mr. F. Forster's Ohservatmis on the South Welsh Coal Basin. 



CONSUMPTION AND EXPORT OF COALS. 

 The home consumption of Coals for the smelting of the Iron Ore 

 raised in the district, and of the Copper Ore imported from Cornwall, is 

 very great. 



Tlie quantity of Iron annually manufactured in Wales has been calculated at Tons. 

 about 270,000 tons. Of this quantity a proportion of about three-fourths 

 is made into bars, and one-fourth sold as pigs and castings. The quantity 

 of Coal required for its manufacture on the average of the whole, including 

 that used by engines, workmen, &c. will be about Si tons for each ton of 

 Iron ; the annual consumption of Coal by the Iron works will therefore be 

 about, 1,500,000 



The quantity used in the smelting of Copper Ore, in the manufacture of Tin 

 Plate, forging of Iron for various purposes, and for domestic uses, may be 

 calculated at 350,000 



Home Consumption,,.. 1,850,000 

 The quantity of Coals and Culm exported from Wales in the year 1828, was as 



follows, viz : 

 Tons of Coal. Tons of Culm. Coal and Culm. 



Cardiff, 32,109 = 32,109 



Newport, 422,878 = 422,878 



Swansea, 144,198 195,213 = 339,411 



Llanelly, 84,386 7,758 == 92,144 



Milford, 8,303 10,051 = 18,354 



691,874 213,022 = 904,896 



Consumption and Export,... 2,754,895 



Of the quantity exported there are sent to Cornwall, and other ports Tons. 



on the S. W. Coast of England, 687,041 



To Ireland, 209,288 



To the British Colonies, 3,895 



To Foreign Countries, • 4,672 



904,896 



The following statement of the rise and extent of the Iron Trade of Great Britain was 

 published in the Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, for December, 1828. It is hoped 

 that its intimate and extensive connection with the present subject will afford a sufficient 

 apology for its insertion here : — 



