No. 215 - THE PENNY MAGAZINE - Aug. 8, 1835

Gas-Lighting.--From the old workings up to the day at Workington, there is brought a small tube, the mouth of which is not more than an inch and a half in diameter. There continually proceeds from it a stream of bad (inflammable) air, which burns perpetually, and makes a jet of flame about a foot high above the opening of the tube. The flame is of a bluish colour, much like that which is given off by spirit of wine. A short time ago there was a similar tube at Whitehaven; but now there is a full circulation of air. The Director then proposed to the magistrates of the town to carry from the mine different tubes through each of the streets in the town; and that by this means all the streets might easily be lighted during the night.--Jars, Voyages Metallurgiques, tom i. p. 245, 1765.