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Description of the process of manufacturing coal gas : for the lighting of streets houses, and public buildings, with elevations, sections, and plans of the most improved sorts of apparatus now employed at the gas works in London and the principal provincial towns of Great Britain : accompanied with comparative estimates exhibiting the most economical mode of procuring this species of light / by Fredrick Accum
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50 QUANTITY OF GAS OBTAINABLE FROM COAL .

Second variety, from the yard vein at

the same place.1,656

Third variety from Bienew, near

Llandillo.1,416

Fourth variety from lllios, near

Polity Barren. 1,272

Fifth variety from the Vale ofGwen-

drath.1,292

Sixth variety, from ditto, .... 1,486

W hen we consider the before mentioned varietiesof coal in an economical point of view, as fuel tobe used in the gas-light process, for heating theretorts, it appears from a series of experiments thathave been made under my direction, that thesecond class of coal comprehending those varietiesw hich contain a larger quantity of carbon thanbitumen (p. 45,) afford the most economical fuel,they act less on the grate bars, and fire bricks ofthe furnace than those varieties which take fireeasily and burn briskly with a strong blaze. A

mixture of Welch Stone coal, and Newcastle coalforms an excellent economical fuel, where an intenseglowing fire is required.