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and experience acquired at their first establish 

 ment, they have of course gone on improving 

 and increasing (not in population) at a much 

 greater rate. One of their greatest improve 

 ments, they tell me, is the working 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 Orleans, carrying their own 

 surplus produce and returning with tea, coffee, 

 and other commodities for their own consump 

 tion, and to retail to the people of the country. 

 I believe they advance, too, in the way of orna 

 ments and superfluities, for the dwelling-house 

 they have now built their pastor, more resem 

 bles a Bishop's Palace than what I should figure 

 to myself as the humble abode of a teacher of 

 the " fundamental principles of the Christian 

 " Religion." 



921. The government of this society is by 

 bands, each consisting of a distinct trade or 

 calling. They have a foreman to each band, 

 who rules it under the general direction of the 

 society, the law-giving power of which is in the 

 High Priest. He cannot, however make laws 

 without the consent of the parties. The manu 

 facturing establishment, and the mercantile 

 affairs and public accounts are all managed by 



