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likely to be higher in price — so look out, if you have any 

 to spare in dried up Ohio. 



Of Maple Sugar, I never saw anything handsomer — 

 equal to best refined. There is also two barrels of very 

 pure and handsome Salt made by a new patented process. 



Among the machinery, one of the most useful articles 

 that I shall take notice of, is a windlass for drawing 

 water, and a very simple contrivance to empty the bucket 

 by the motion of the windlass. 



Cooking stoves, as usual upon all such occasions, are 

 very abundant, and in great variety. Those termed air 

 tight, I must say that I prefer to any other. 



There is a model of a railroad car, which the inventor 

 says, will turn almost "right about." It certainly looks 

 as though it would run safely around very short curves. 

 It is worthy of a trial. The show of domestic manu- 

 factures though by no means as great as it ought to be 

 in the centre of the Empire State, and in such a county 

 and city as this, is yet a very respectable one. I have 

 taken leave to say to the few gentlemen who do the work 

 of sustaining this society, that their shows will never be 

 what they desire to make them, until they make the same 

 "a fair" instead of merely a show. 



But now a greater man than me is about to speak — 

 Josiah Quincy, jr. 1 of Boston. And now having been one 

 of the favored few of the crowd enabled, to get within 

 hearing distance of the stand, which had to be arranged 

 in the open air, in consequence of the blowing down of 

 the great tent, I pronounce the address just what it 

 ought to be on such occasions, and just what all who 

 know the man expected from him. It was received with 

 great applause, and I suppose will soon be published, as 



Josiah Quincy, born February 4, 1772, at Boston; died July 1, 

 18G4. Politician, statesman, author. Mayor of Boston, 1823-1827. 

 President of Harvard University, 1829-1845. Conducted a model 

 and experimental farm and lectured before Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Society on various subjects. Dictionary of American 

 Biography, 15:308-11. 



