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ADVANTAGES OF GAS LIGHTS. 



northern powers, the want of importation of tallow has in-" 



crtased to a very considerable heignt the price of candles, 



soap, &c. The rise of price in candles has of course 



been the occasion of an equal rise in oil, as lamps are sub- 



^ . . , stituted in the place of candles. 



Coal abundant ^, . ^ ^ • /. i • , 



in this coun- -l his country produces a vast quantity ot coal, in almost 



^'■y • every part where it is properly sought for, and if the gas 



light was generally introduced into the greatest part of the 

 large, the middling, and even the smaller sized manufacto- 

 ries, a natural conseqvience would be, that coal would be 

 consumption consumed iu much greater quantities. It might raise the 

 raised the price price, but it certainly would be a stimulus to men of landed 

 would occasion pi'operty, to seek for it, whereto the present it has been sup- 

 a greater sup- posed a stranger. It would therefore, if the demand was so 

 ^ ^' much the greater, be found 1 am sure in greater quantities 



than at the present, as miners would be induced tO|seek it 

 every where. In times like the present, when we are i\ great 

 measure hindered from exporting it, it would be an advan- 

 tage if we could consume it all ; and in fact at all times, if 

 the whole of the coal produced in this country could be 

 consumed, it would supersede this anxiety for exportation, 



especially if it brought a little higher price. 

 Ceak might be '^ "^ , ^ , h f , . , , 



more o^enerally In your remarks on the paper, you seem to think, that, 

 used than at ^as the gas used generally in lighting the streets, and add 

 * to it, if generally used in manufactories also, the great 



quantities of coak produced would be so much more than 

 the demand for it, that it would sell much lower than the 

 present market price. This would certainly be the case, 

 unless coak could be introduced into more general use than 

 it is at present. But from experience I find, that a fire 

 made of coak will last mufch longer than one made of coal; 

 for, the gas being extracted, it loses that degree of inflam- 

 mation, which, at the time it blazes, consumes the coal very 

 fast", especially if it is good coal, which contains a large 

 Stoves in shops quantity of gas. When I speak of coak used in the place 

 *nd warerooms of coal as an advantage, it is in stoves in warehouses and 

 shops, where stoves are in more general use than fire-places. 

 These having a quick draught, the coal, especially as I said 

 before, if good, soon flares away; but if coak is used, that 

 inflammatory principle being taken away, it glows, casts out 



a great 





