EXTENT OF SUPPLY. 
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and mines; the exports; the fires at the pits’ 
mouth; the active demand and supply in 
Belgium, and elsewhere abroad; the steam¬ 
ers wending their way in every ocean;—and 
the results both as to supply of fuel, and 
employment of labour will appear to be truly 
wonderful. When we consider that all this 
vast provision originated in the tangled for¬ 
ests of by-gone ages, prepared and garnered 
by processes of consummate power and 
skill, we cannot withhold the tribute of 
grateful admiration. 
“ Oh it is beautiful to see this world 
Poised in the crystal air, with all its seas, 
Mountains, and plains, majestically rolling 
Around its noiseless axis, day by day, 
And year by year, and century after century; 
And as it turns, still wheeling through the immense 
Of ether, circling the resplendent sun 
In calm and simple grandeur.’^ 
