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and a well-digested Treatise* was accordingly transmitted to 

 them by the Secretary, during the period of their last session. 

 It is before the publick ; and its very favourable views of the 

 growth and manufacture of silk in the United States, present a 

 field of speculation, that is peculiarly attractive. The same 

 policy, which has enlightened, and will no doubt stimulate by 

 due rewards, the enterprising and industrious in this particular 

 department, may soon become extended, (veni dies !) to the 

 whole range of Horticulture ! 



Had I not already dwelt so long upon the first of the par- 

 ticulars, that were proposed for your attention, I might here en- 

 large upon the future prospects of our favoured land. I might 

 collect before you the anticipations, which are sufforested, by its 

 unparalleled advancement in the facilities of transportation and 

 the extent of commerce : its canals and rail-roads ; the staple 

 products of its soil ; and its natural adaptation for the residence 

 of the most enlightened of all people on our globe. Exhibiting, 

 in their true colours, the glories that may one day reach, like 

 the celestial bow, from our Atlantick to our Pacifick confines, 1 

 might direct your contemplation to this graphick symbol of our 

 great national destinies. And when all sounds of a disunion 

 shall have passed away ; when the rude storm of political ani- 

 mosity shall have been stilled ; and when the last echo of the 

 thunderings that arrest us in the South shall cease to roll ; as 

 the prismatick arch, the token of an everlasting covenant of 



* It is entitled "Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting 

 the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives, of 

 May 11, 1826, in relation to the Growth and Manufacture of silk, adapted to 

 the different parts of the Union". Octavo, Wash. Gales &, Seaton, 1828. pp. 220. 

 Another Congressional Document on the subject is the " Letter from James 

 Mease, transmitting a Treatise on ithe rearing of silk worms, by Mr. DC 

 Haz/.i of Munich, for." Wash. Gales &. Seaton, 1828. pp. 108. 



