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557. July 2Qth. — From Wheeling, through Charls- 

 ton, chaiiging sides of the river again to Steubenville. 

 My eyes were delighted at Charlston to see the smoke 

 of the coals ascending from the glass-works they have 

 here. This smoke it is that must enrich America ; she 

 might save almost all her dollars if she would but 

 bring her invaluable black diamonds into service. Talk 

 of independence, indeed, without coats to wear or knives 

 or plates to eat with ! 



558. At Steubenville, became acquainted with 

 Messrs. Wills, Ross, and company, who have an ex- 

 cellent and well-conducted woollen manufactory here. 

 They make very good cloths, and at reasonable prices ; 

 I am sorry they (lo not retail them at Philadelphia ; 

 J, lor one, should be customer to them for all tliat my 

 family wanted in the woollen-way. Here are likewise 

 a Cotton-mill, a Grist-mill, a Paper-mill, an Iron- 

 foundery and Tan-yards and Breweries. Had the 

 pleasure to see Mr. Wilson, the editor of the Steuben- 

 ville Gazette, a very public-spirited man, and, I be- 

 lieve, very serviceable to this part of the country^. It' 

 the policy he so powerfully advocates were adopted, 

 the effects would be grand for America ; it would save 

 her dollars while it would help to draw the nails of the 

 vile Boroughmongers. But, he has to labour against 

 the inveterate effects of the thing the most difficult of 

 all others to move — habit. 



559. By what I have been able to observe of this part 

 of the country, those who expect to find what is gene- 

 rally understood by sociefif, pretty much the same that 

 they have been accustomed to it on the Atlantic side, 

 or ia England, will not be totally disappointed. It is 

 here upon the basis of the same manners and customs 

 as in the oldest settled districts, and it there differs 

 from what it is in England, and here from what it is 

 there, only according to circumstances. Few of the 

 social amusements that are practicable at present, are 

 scarce ; dancing the most rational for every reason, is 

 the most common ; and, in an assemblage f jr this pur- 

 pose, composed of the farmers' daughters and sons 

 from 20 miles round, an Englishman (particularly if 

 a young one) might very well think his travels to be 



