CHAP. xxvr. JEWELLERS. 



only the gold on the surface, is another mode by 

 which toys and trinkets are furnish^ti at a cheap 

 rate to those whose purses do not admit of their 

 buying ornaments of either fine gold, alloyed gold, 

 or gold plating. These are the millions in every 

 part of the world, each of whom obtains and 

 disperses a certain quantity of gold which, though 

 minute individually, amounts to a sum of high 

 value when the whole of the human race who 

 consume such articles is comprehended in the 

 calculation. 



If among the male part of the public the use of 

 gold ornaments has not been adopted to the same 

 additional extent as among the females, yet some 

 progressive increase is very apparent. The use of 

 gold chains for eye-glasses, the increased number 

 and size of seals, broaches, and breast-pins, and 

 the small waistcoat buttons of gold, or of gilding 

 or plating, have caused a great consumption of 

 that metal. Whoever has travelled much on the 

 continent must have been struck particularly with 

 the size of the seals, the great number of trinkets, 

 and the weight of the gold chains usually appended 

 to the watches both of the ladies and gentlemen. 

 The fashions of Europe extend their influence to 

 every civilized part of the world. In America, in 

 the different colonial establishments founded by 

 Europeans in the West Indies, in Africa, Asia, 

 and Australia, besides their domestic manufactures, 

 they are supplied with ornaments consisting in a 



