242 Mr. Dupont’s Factory. 
quire it. Our winters, and other circumstances, forbid 
turnip-culture, in the extent practiced in Europe. 
I have recently had much gratification in visiting the 
establishment of Messrs. Dupont & Co. (near Wilming- 
ton Delaware) for the manufacture of gun-powder. Mr. 
Dupont will do our country important service, while he 
gains, for himself and his associates, well earned repu- 
tation, by bringing to perfection a nationally interesting 
manufactory, on a very extensive scale. It is not with- 
out some knowledge of the subject, (to which my public 
duty called my attention during our revolutionary con- 
test) that I express my conviction, that these works 
are well worthy of national patronage ; though, fortu- 
nately, their proprietors, by their own efforts, will en- 
sure success ; now they have overcome the difficulties, 
which, heretofore, they have encountered. It would do 
honour, in any country, to those who should found 
and conduct, such an establishment. 
That he may, in some degree, balance the mischiefs, 
in which the lethal means of destruction he furnishes, 
involve mankind ; Mr. Dupont (in connection with the 
company) is commencing a work for their comfort and 
preservation. It is a large factory, for woollen and cotton 
fabrics; to be conducted under the charge of his brother. 
As much to set an example, as to assist his views in ma- 
nufacturing, he is (in conjunction with Mr. Bauduy, one 
of his partners, who has some fine sheep on another 
farm) beginning a plan for establishing a flock of me- 
rinos; in which he has made very promising progress. 
His ram Don Pedro,* is of the perfect breed, and his 
* The projecting occiput of the merino head, behind the 
ears and horns, (of which latter o/a/, it has a plentiful sup- 
