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tain (as all our endeavours are gratuitous, and personally 
disinterested } well founded hopes, of being encouraged 
and assisted by the patriotism and public spirit of our 
fellow-citizens. 
Such a manufactory, with its warehouse and reposi- 
tory, once in operation on an extensive plan, will give 
employment and profit to numerous workmen of almost 
every description. It will not be necessary that all these 
should work in the manufactory. —They may, in their 
own work-shops, wheresoever situated, complete in- 
struments according to models furnished, or agreeably 
to their own ideas, and send them for sale, or vend them 
to the director; so as to afford them a profit, and to 
him a reasonable advance. 
To the AcricuLTuristTs of our own, and of every 
other state (and to those of the southern states particu- 
larly, where the demand is great, and where few or no 
instruments of husbandry are made) most important ad- 
vantages will be derived, ‘They will be certain of finding 
at one place, a general assortment of the implements they 
require; and have the most probable assurance of the good 
quality and construction, of the articles they order. En- 
couragement, by extensive demand, will induce fidelity 
and integrity in the director; whose emoluments will en- 
crease and continue solong ashe maintains his reputation; 
as well for the construction, workmanship and materials 
ef the articles he supplies, as for the moderate rates at 
which tiiey are obtamed. And it may rationally be ex- 
pected, that they can be afforded on the best terms, when 
the demand warrants the employment of a capital not 
usually within the means of workmen, or dealers on a 
small scale. Among the benetits to be derived from the 
