. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . ■h^ 14 loco:motive PHILADELPHIA AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD DEPOT. are tl\e most complete in their structure and arrangement of any simi-lar establishment in the country. They were commenced in 1835,with some doubt as to the practicability of the undertaking, in aneconomical view. The entire area now occupied by the works isnearly eight acres, with a front on the Schuylkill of 800 feet. A highstandard of illuminating quality of gas has been adopted, by the
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . ■h^ 14 loco:motive PHILADELPHIA AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD DEPOT. are tl\e most complete in their structure and arrangement of any simi-lar establishment in the country. They were commenced in 1835,with some doubt as to the practicability of the undertaking, in aneconomical view. The entire area now occupied by the works isnearly eight acres, with a front on the Schuylkill of 800 feet. A highstandard of illuminating quality of gas has been adopted, by the useof the proper varieties of coal, and the admixture of resin when theyfall below the prescribed standard. The fat bituminous coals of ourown State are principally used, with some samples of pure Cannelcoal, some of it imported and some obtained from the extensive bedsof Virginia, as well as those lately discovered in our ovra State, which,it seems, has almost every variety of coal known anywhere on theglobe. The standard quality of the gas is that of twenty candle light—in other words, the light of an argand burner, consuming four feetof gas per hour, i
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