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In conclusion I have to observe that my object throughout has been to make the work a compendium of all the best information which the practice of the art down to the present moment has been able to afford, embodying a great number of data, with which I have been obligingly favoured by gentlemen, the most practically versant in the art, and for which I beg they will individually accept this public expression of my thanks, and obligations, as well as the results which my own labours in this department, neither few, nor inconsiderable have furnished.

To supply the reader with a work of practical utility in a most valuable, and growing branch of national economy has been my object; and I need scarcely add, that the suffrages of the public to the zeal and industry at least with which I have endeavoured to obtain that object, will be a source of infinite satisfaction.

FREDRICK ACCUM.

LONDON, 1819.

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The author of this work respectfully informs the public, that they may be furnished with estimates, and plans for the building of Gas Works, particularly adapted to the circumstances of the places where they are to be established, and that he proposes to superintend the erection of the works.