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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 neighbours. Thus this ever- 

 lastingly-at-work band of emigrants increased 

 their stock before they quitted their first colony, 

 to upwards of two hundred thousand dollars, 

 from, probably, not one fifth of that sum. What 

 will not unceasing perseverance accomplish ? 

 But, with judgment and order to direct it, what 

 in the world can stand against it!* 



920. 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 spi 

 ritual affairs are managed in the same way, and 

 upon the same principles, only both are more 

 flourishing. Rapp has here brought his disci 

 ples into richer land, and into a situation better 

 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 navigable river on 

 one side, while the possibility of much interrup 

 tion from other classes of Christians is effec 

 tually guarded against by an endless barricado 

 of \yoods on the other side. Bringing the means 



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

 I, will be found in Mi;. Mellish's Travels, vol. 2, 



