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concentrated to require little boiling to crystallize it. Tanning 

 is carried on every where extensively, both upper and sole 

 leather being made, of excellent quality. Nothing can excel 

 the bark of the wattle for tanning, and the kangaroo skin pro- 

 duces uppers equal to the best calf. A great many of the lame 

 farmers manufacture all their own leather; indeed numbers 

 not only do so, but make all their shoes, and manufacture all the 

 coarse cloth for their servants' clothes, and perform all their 

 own smith-work upon their farm, being supplied by Govern- 

 ment with convict mechanics, for which they pay to them 

 3s. 6d. a week, besides the usual wages to the convict. A 

 considerable quantity of coarse woollen cloth is made for sale 

 at Mr. S. Lord's manufactory, near Botany Bay, which is sold 

 dearer, but wears much better, than English cloth of the same 

 fineness. Several others also manufacture cloth on a small 

 scale for sale, while all who have wool to spare may have it 

 made into cloth at the Government Female Factory, Para- 

 matta, by paying the expense of manufacturing it into wool. 

 Saddlery, tinware, soap and candles are also made in great 

 abundance, and there is likewise a small foundry for casting 

 iron. Hat-making has long been a thriving trade ; both coarse 

 and fine ones are manufactured in Sydney, the latter being 

 beavered with the fur of the flying squirrel, which is of a silky 

 softness and beautiful slate colour ; the skins cost the hatters 

 Is. 3d. a-piece. Two potteries have been for some years in 

 constant employment. Our clay is admirably adapted for 

 these purposes, and most of our common heavy ware is sup- 

 plied from these two sources. Milk bowls, large covered 

 butter vessels capable of holding 40lbs., also some of a similar 

 construction for salting meat, wine and butter coolers, com- 

 mon jugs, bowls, cups and saucers, tea-pots, spruce-beer bot- 

 tles, &c. are all made here. The glazing, however, is nothing 

 like so good as the Staffordshire, for want of proper means, as 

 both the men who conduct them were brought up in the best 

 manufactories in that country. Ploughs, carts, waggons, har- 

 rows, and all farming utensils are made and sold cheaper here 

 than they can be imported from England. 



THE LOGAN ROCK. 



Our readers may remember that a Lieutenant Goldsmith of 

 ihe Navy distinguished himself rather unenviably last spring, 

 by the gallant exploit of effecting the overthrow of the curious 

 Logan or Rocking-stone in Cornwall. He is now endeavour- 

 ing, it appears, to set it up again; and in a particularly absurd 

 paragraph, in aq Exeter paper, we find him complimented 



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