COAL.
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Name of Gas-Works.
Material used.
Average Cubic Feetof Gas from a Tonof Coal.
Illuminating Power ofGas, as compared withSperm Candles.
England:—
Bath.
Somersetshire coals ....
7,730
11 to 12
Beccles.
Kavensworth, Pelaw, and New-
castle coals.
9,000
13
Bilston.
Bilston coal.
7,100
94
Birkenhead.
Wigan cannel and other coals .
10,091
21
Birmingham.
Staffordshire and Derbyshire coal
8,800
124
Blackburn.
| Boghead cannel, and | Earl-
Balcarres Arlev Mine coal .
10,400
164
Bolton.
Cannel and coal.
Cannel, 9,450;
Not known
coal, from
7458to 9849
Bradford.
Bett or bed coals, and cannel .
9,250
17 to 19, accord-
ing to heat.
Bridgewater.
Bristol and South Wales coal .
About 7,500
Not known.
Brierlev Hill.
Thick coal.
6,400
Not known.
Brighton.
Newcastle coal.
9,450
134
Brighton and Hove
Newcastle coal.
9,420
134
Bristol.
Coal from Coalpitheath, Forest
of Dean, and South Wales
7,000
13
Burv St. Edmund’s
Pelaw Alain coal.
8,976
14-00
Cambridge.
Pereth coal.
9,700
Upwards of 12
Carlisle.
Cumberland coal, with about 6
per cent, of Lesmahago cannel
7,000
15
Cheltenham.
Forest of Dean and Derbyshire
coal.
9,000
10
Derby.
Derbyshire coals.
About 8,100
From 12 to 14
Devonport.
95 per cent. Newcastle coal; 5
per cent. Boghead ....
10,000
14
Dewshurv .
7,500
14
Dublin (Alliance Co.) . .
Newcastle and cannel coal, 5 to 1
9,000
14
Exeter.
Newcastle or Hartlepool coal .
9,200
Not known.
Glossop.
Cannel and best coal ....
9,500
124
Gloucester.
Forest of Dean coal ....
9,000
From 8 to 9
Great Grimsby ....
Silkstone coal.
8,600
13-3
Harrogate.
Coal from Braucepeth
From 8,000 to
11 in winter.
9,000
15 in summer.
Hartlepool.
Caking coals, Hutton Seam
About 8,700
Not known.
Hastings.
Newcastle coking coal, with
Ramsay’s cannel ....
9,500 to 10,000
About 12
IIeywood,near Manchester
Two-thirds cannel and one-third
coal.
9,600
17
Holmfirth.
Cannel and best house coal
mixed.
9,000
From 12 to 14
Kingston-upon-Thames .
New Pelton, and other New-
castle coals.
8,500
13
; Leamington Priors .
Derbyshire coal.
8,000
13
Leeds.
Cannel and coal.
About 9,000
Average about 18
Leicester.
Derbyshire coal.
8,400 to 8,500
13 in winter.
14 in summer.
Lincoln.
Silkstone and Renisliaw coal
7,500
10 in winter. !
13 in summer.
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