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: 27 by the ſteam-engine, a much greater depth of working will be obtained.*

Profits of working in the aggregate, by no means equal to the extent and riſque of the adventure; to a few works conſiderable; to the majority very moderate.

E WS is of prime quality; pure and durable in burn- ing; firm, large, and of a frong grain; which enſures its conveyance to almoît any diſtance, without injury to its ap- pearance or quality, which cannot be exceeded in any part of the kingdom. Bath is the principal market of con- ſamption; to which may be added, the weſtern parts of Wiltſhire, and the next adjacent parts of Somerſetſhire. The quantity now raiſed is from fifteen hundred to two thouſand tons weekly. A much greater can be ſupplied, ſhould an increaſed demand reguire it. Boys and men, to the number of fifteen hundred, are employed in working it, with wages ſufficiently adequate to procure them a com- fortable ſubſiſtence.

An E is intended to be made to parliament at the enſuing ſeſſion, for leave to cut two E E a canal for the accommodation of the collieries of this northern diſtri, to communicate with the rivers Avon and Kennett.+ Should the bill paß, a conſiderable extenſion of ſale may be reaſonably inferred. The permanence of the works 1

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* As ît may be a matter of conſequence to all ſuch coal-works whote ſituation in E to water will admit of it, it ought to be noticed, that at Welton, a work in the northern part of Midſummer-Norton, the coal has lately been drawn up by a water-w heel on a new conftruc- tion; the machinery appendant to which is ſo contrived as to anſwer the purpoſe in the inoſt perfe and cheap manner; the uſe of horſes, as in the old way, being entirely ſuperſeded; and the conſumption 0

fuel, as in the new way by the ſteam-engine, altogether faved. R. Pe + This ag has been obtained; and the canal is now(Jan. 1797)

nearly half finiſhed. i AINDiY