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Excerpt from A Report to the Navy Department of the United States on American Coals, Applicable to Steam Navigation, and to Other Purposes In virtue of this authority, Professor W. R. Johnson, of Philadelphia, vas empowered to institute a series of experiments upon coal, on which duty he has been zealously engaged. The result of his labors is herewith communicated in a large manuscript volume, containing the report, se companied with several sheets of drawings and tabular statements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.