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dependent on, or connefted with it ; either by fupplying them with 

 the raw materials, from whence they are formed, or by proving an- 

 cillary to them, in fome ftage or other of their operation) by certain 

 fubftances which it affords. Such are the trades of tanners, flioe-makers, 

 faddlers, coach-makers, harnefs-makers, upholflierers, glovers, book- 

 binders, parchment-makers, in fliort, all thofe artifts, who are employed 

 !n preparing the hides of oxen, and ikins of other animals, and form- 

 ing them into various utenfils, of ufe or luxury, into different parts of 

 the wearing apparel of men or vvornen, and applying them to various 

 ether purpofes of life. 



Where abundance of cattle are flaughtered, not only for domeflic 

 confumption, but for exportation ; extenfive manufaftures of candles 

 and foap may be eflablifhed. The woollen manufafture alfo derives 

 confiderable advantage from this circumflance. Large quantities of 

 greafe and animal oil arc furnifhed for the ufe of feveral wool-combers. 

 Even the bones and offal of animals are applied to many ufeful purpofes, 

 and become the foundations of very important manufaftures ; for inftance, 

 glue, which is produced from the feet of flieep and oxen, and (hreds of 

 their Ikins. As to the bones, they are applicable to a variety of ufes. 

 Hartfhoru is extracted from them ; cutlers and turners employ them, in 

 knife-handles, and a variety of inftruments and toys. The bones of ani- 

 mals, and the infide of the horns, with the hoofs of oxen, employ a num- 

 ber of people in making molds ; a confiderable objeft of induflry, trifling 

 as the article, at firfl glance, may appear. The very blood of cattle has its 

 ufe and value ; being neceifary for the procefs of refining fugar. Blood, 

 together with the bones and hoofs of animals, are applicable to the manu- 

 faclure of flil ammoniac, and Pruffian blue,* and fome other chemical pre- 

 parations. The tranfparent part of horn is employed in a variety of manu- 

 faftures, which it is not neceffary here to enumerate. The foregoing ca- 

 talogue, which is a tolerable long one, may fervc to iliew, in what va- 

 rious 



* Pruffian blue is made of the dried blood, horns, hoofs, bones, and tendons. 



