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The present treatise, as its title expresses, is intended to exhibit the superior process of manufacturing coal gas now employed in the metropolis and the provincial towns of Great Britain, and to lay before the reader the elevations, sections, and plans of the improved Gas Light machinery, which has stood the test of practice, and is now in action at the most celebrated Gas Light Establishments.

In the ssss1 and ssss1 of the Treatise, I have, as introductory to the rest, given a sketch of the chemical theory and production of Gas Light. I have pointed out the leading objects of public and private utility, to which the art of lighting with gas has been, or remains to be applied: and added such other facts and observations as may serve to remove all doubt in the minds of the reader as to the important benefit which this country in particular, and the world at large, have gained by this discovery.

In the ssss1 I have stated the maximum quantities of gas obtainable in the large way, from different kinds of coal.