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and, as a proof of superabundance, a dwelling-house 

 and a meeting-house (alias the parsonage and church) 

 which they had neatly built of brick. And, besides 

 all these improvements within the society, they did a 

 great deal of business, principally in the way of ma- 

 nufacturing, for the people of the country. They 

 worked for them with their mills and machines, some 

 of which did nothing else, and their blacksmiths, tailors, 

 shoe-makers, &c. when not employed by themselves, 

 were constantly at work for their neightsours. Thus 

 this everlastingly-at-work band of emigrants increased 

 their stock before they quitted their first colony, to up- 

 wards of two hundred thousand dollars, from, probably 

 not one fifth of that sum. What will not nnceasing 

 perseverance accomplish ? But, with judgment and 

 order to direct it^ what in the Avorld can stand against 

 it!* 



520. In comparing the state of this society as it now 

 is with what it was in Pennsylvania, it is just the same 

 as to plan ; the temporal and spiritual affairs are ma- 

 naged in the same way, and upon the same principles, 

 only both are more flourishing. Rapp has here brought 

 his disciples into richer land, and into a situation bet- 

 ter in every respect, both for carrying on their trade, 

 and for keeping to their faith ; their vast extent of land 

 is, they say, four feet deep of rich mould, nearly the 

 whole of it, and it lies along the banks of a fine na- 

 vigable river on one side, while the possibility of much 

 interruption from other classes of Christians is effec- 

 tually guarded against by an endless barricado of 

 woods on the other side. Bringing the means and ex- 

 perience acquired at their first establishment, they have 

 of course gone on improving and increasing (not in 

 ])opulation} at a much greater rate. One of their 

 greatest improvements, they tell me, is the M-orking of 

 their mills and manufacturing machines by steam; 

 they feel the advantage of this more and more every 

 year. They are now preparing to build a steam-boat ; 

 this is to be employed in their traffick with New Or- 



* A more detailed account of this society, up to the year 

 1811, will be found in Mr. Mclllsh's Travels, vol. 2. 



