HEAT FROM GAS-LIGHTING.

In the winter of 1835, Mr. W. H. White ascertained the temperature in

the City to be 3° higher than three miles south of London Bridge; and

_after the gas had been lighted in the City_ four or five hours the

temperature increased full 3°, thus making 6° difference in the three

miles.

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