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NMurdoch’s successful utilization o gas causcd no small sensation, and mspired both hopes and fears. When e the first or sccond vear of the new century ai cxhibition was civen o gas lighting, in Soho, one who was

present duhmd the illumination to he of

• the most extraordimary splendour,” and no

doubt, to cyes accustomed to the feehic ol lamp, it was so. At the same tume many people saw it all kinds of danger, among others, the probable Toss of our naval supre- macy. It was said that whale fishing would hecome extinet as an industry i oil were no loncer burnt, and that as whale fishing was England’s naval nursery, Britanni would soon find it impossible o rule the cwing to the want of training on the part of her sons. The story ol the progress of gas liehting s long and interesting, bhut it must suthee here to men- tion that w corpora- tion, the present Gas Faghtand Coke Com- pany, was [ormed in

waves,

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1S1o, that West- minster Dridge was

frst lighted with gas i 183, Westminster iselt m 181y, and the areater part of London m 1810,

[nats carly dayvs cas afforded the can- caturist many oppor- tunities for Most : amusing sallies, of which the description to-day of an mflated specch as “gas 7 1s no doubt a survival CGieorge Crutkshank turned the discovery toexcellent account, as ay he seen n two reproductions which we are enabled th make from his pen. “The Good IEffects of Carbonic Gas appearcd i 1813, and “T'he Introduction of Gas, or Throwimg a New Laght on the Subject,” I 18158,

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