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considerable. stein ® to M. Xardel some rare samples exist which afford 
even 45 @ 50 ent; other specimens afford 20 @ 25 per cent. 
per 
The beds which ae pwnd or are capable of being worked, yield from 5 to - 
9 per cent.” [ }—Again [p. 676], “ The impressions of fossils, so com- 
mon in the sales of d’Igornay, occur in the poorer h he rich shales, 
ont , often contain vegetable remains analagous to those common! 
found a e beds of rich shale are in a man 
ving it for our readers r the question; how far removed in any- 
thing "but hye papa oS the “ “coal” (Bo ecm i which Mr. Young has 
ope as a ’ ‘i eerie Ka M.S 
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with which the reader can readily enough ane himself by conti 
German eieucsl journals of the Tast eight or ten years. proof of it 
we cite only the ceisaonoen, :* “The recent aos in the celebrated bein 
n Ger- 
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many, as proo of which we have a case in Bolt and which, althbiigh not at 
e time known in this country, was officially decided open in Berlin previous 
to the trial coming on in Scotland, which terminated on the 4th of August 
, &c. A rival Eng 
and to give both fair play, it was decided that the latter Coke should. be 
nfined to the al alone. = ngelh anager 
(Resin) Gas Company, apis heard of the Boghead and Torbane mineral, 
obtained specimens, and having found they produced excellent gas, gave an 
order for a i consignment which reached Frankfort vid Rotterdam, eer 
a Dutch agent. This was entered at the Custom-house as cannel coal, much 
to the annoy er of Mr. Engelhard, who was no more at liberty to make gas 
from coal than his rg were to make it of anything else but coal. He was, 
daweeree, prevented from the wecoeuity of atrial at law, for the officials did 
hes ake 5 were as much at a loss as their inferiors, and the case was 
eventually transferred to t the Central Board of Customs at Berlin, the last 
urt of appeal of th i 
a oe ton.” 
In connection with the question of the products of the it of coal 
which Dr. A. would have us believe so entirely new to the world a to sist 
ot in particular, we cite the following from The Encye clopedia "of ci 
, by James C. Booth and Campbe ell Morfit. 8vo, Philadelphia, Baird, 1850, 
Ms i. Article, Coal: paragraph, “ products of dry distillation.” . 
i ee cana Journal of Gas Lighting, Oct., 1853, iii, 256 ; from London Min 
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