Elements of Useful Knowledge Vol II Author:Noah Webster Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 186. FcJJil, Coal and Peat. Coal for fuel is furnifhed' by the United States, in the greateft abundance. A mine on the Powhatan tiver, in Virginia, is now wrough... more »t, and coal pf the beft quality isfeut from it to various parts of the United States. On the Sufquehanna—On the Ohio —near Pitt (burgh, and in Kentucky, are vaft beds of this fuel deftined hereafter to furnifh our fires when wood fhall fail. Peat is found at Newtown, on Long-Ifland, at Norwalk, FairSeld, Woodbridge and Hambden m Connecticut; and already begins to be ufed by the inhabitants, and exported to- New-York. It is alfo found-in ether parts of the United States. 187. Other FoJJllf and Minerals. Ifingglafs, bl'.-jfc. lead, alum, ocher, foap-ftone, fulphur, marl, chalk, and antimony have been found in the United States. But the natural hiftory of North America, mere efpecially its mineral productions, have yet been little inveftigated.— Doubtlefs many mineral fubftances, conftituting a vaft body of natural riches, remain yet undifcovered in the bofom of mountains : but which, when labor fhall be cheaper, the fludy of mineralogy purfued with more ardor, and the wants of our people more preffing, will be found and converted to ufeful purpofes. 188. Mineral Springs. Numerous mineral fprings have already been difcovered in the United States. At Stafford in Connecticut is a fpring whofe waters poffefs chalybeate properties, and are valued for their effects in fcorbutic and iheumatic cafes. The warm fpring at Lebanon in the ftate of New-York, is remarkable for the qflantity and temperature of the water it difcharges-— its temperature is marked by 71 of Farenheit, which renders it a pleafant bath—The effects of its waters in curing- fcorbutic and rheumatic affections, have rendered it a. place of refort during the fum...« less