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From Messrs. Gillanders and Co. I have obtained a cake of artificial fuel, which is 

 the object of a patent at home ; and, as shewing how coal may be ceconomised is 

 always a proper addition to our Museum. I do not know the composition of this parti- 

 cular fuel which, however, is probably coal dust and some of the bitumens; but I may 

 mention that some years ago 1 ascertained that coal dust mixed in as large a quantity 

 as would hold together with cow dung and a little earth, (the native composition for 

 smearing floors, &c) forms a capital fuel, where a slow steady fire, as in distilling or 

 sugar drying house work, is required, and 1 made and burnt several hundred maunds 

 of it. I made a communication to Government (Lord Auckland's) on the subject but 

 never heard any thing in reply. 



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