General scale of relative values, formed from the averages of each class..

Averages.

Beaver Meadow, slope 5.

Peach Mountain, Schuylkill.
Lackawanna

Lehigh...

Averages

Queen's run..
Blossburg

A.

B.

C.

D. | E F.

1,000 1,000

282 828

505 3.615

936

946

451 658

286 8,277

Easby and Smith's.

931

903

New York and Maryland mining.
Neff's

Forest improvement, Schuylkill.

Dauphin and Susquehanna.
Cambria county.

Lycoming creek.

Averages

Maryland free burning coals..
Pennsylvania anthracites..
Pennsylvania free burning bituminous.
Virginia bituminous...
Foreign bituminous

For further information relating to the subject
of fuel, the reader is referred to the articles
ANTHRACITE, CHARCOAL, COAL, COKE, GAs,
PEAT, WOOD.

FUENTERRABIA, or FONTARABIA, a city and port of Spain, in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa, at the mouth of the Bidassoa, on the French frontier; pop. 2,035. It was formerly well fortified, but the French dismantled it in 1794. It has some manufactures of hempen shoes, linen, cloth, marine stores, and earthenware. It has sustained several sieges, and was the scene of a victory over the Carlists by the auxiliary British legion under Gen. Evans in 1837. During the peninsular war, the Fuentarrabians were reproached with singularly inhospitable treatment of disabled British troops.

FUEROS (probably from Sp. fuera, outside, or foreign), the term applied in Spain to the ancient constitutional privileges of the Basque provinces, Guipuzcoa, Alava, Biscay, and Upper Navarre. The original meaning of the word in

1,000 1,000 895 880 692
977 986 1,000 893 819
951 938 890 1,000 914
850 757 242 948 730
801 741 831 948 1,000

dicates that those provinces are outside of the
ordinary administration of the kingdom. Their
government is essentially republican, the king
having only the power of nominating the cor-
regidor or chief magistrate, whose nomination
has to be confirmed by the junta of the province,
a legislative body elected by almost universal
suffrage. The inhabitants of these provinces
are exempt from all taxes and imposts except
such as they vote themselves, and claim by vir-
tue of their birth the privileges of Spanish
nobility. From the remotest antiquity they
have maintained their rights against all the
dynasties of Spain. In the 18th century the
fueros were embodied in a written code, which
was enlarged and reconfirmed in the reign of
Charles V. In 1833 the assertion of their privi-
leges by the Basques gave rise to civil war,
which lasted for several years and terminated
in the formal admission of the validity of the
fueros by the cortes and queen of Spain in
1844.

END OF VOLUME SEVENTH.