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enterprise of her inhabitants, Bristol is probably unsurpassed by 

 any other county in the Commonwealth. 



In this county are fifty cotton manufactories, where are an- 

 nually made more than 19,000,000 yards of cloth ; four calico 

 manufactories ; three woollen mills : seven rolling, slitting and 

 nail mills ; three forges ; fourteen furnaces for the manufacture 

 of hollow ware, &c. ; ten establishments for the manufacture 

 of cotton, woollen and other machinery ; five axe manufacto- 

 ries ; one establishment for the manufacture of steam engines 

 and boilers ; two establishments for the manufacture of cutlery ; 

 five tack and brad manufactories ; six manufactories of shovels 

 and spades, forks and hoes ; one establishment for the manu- 

 facture of Britannia ware ; one plough manufactory ; one cop- 

 per manufactory ; six brass founderies ; one metal button man- 

 ufactory ; one glass manufactory ; three paper manufactories ; 

 two clock manufactories ; twelve establishments for the manu- 

 facture of chronometers, watches, gold and silverware and jew- 

 elry ; eighteen saddle, harness and trunk manufactories ; one 

 cordage manufactory ; seventeen establishments for the manu- 

 facture of salt ; thirty-eight establishments for manufacturing 

 vehicles ; two lead manufactories ; eighteen establishments for 

 the manufacture of oil and sperm candles ; nine soap and can- 

 dle manufactories ; fourteen chair manufactories ; two comb 

 manufactories ; one linseed oil mill ; twenty-three furnaces, 

 ^147,703 worth of straw bonnets and hats manufactured; 

 f 5000 worth of segars ; building stone quarried and prepared 

 to the value of |27,000 ; $4,300 worth of marble quarried ; 

 wooden ware manufactured to the value of f 12,800; boxes to 

 the value of $14,835; and between three and four hundred 

 vessels employed in the whale fishery. 



According to the best information, there are in the county, 

 31 Saxony, 711 Merino, and 9,144 other kinds of sheep ; 5 asses 

 and mules ; 5,350 horses ; 15,285 neat stock ; and there are 

 annually produced about 140,000 bushels of corn; 16,000 

 bushels of rye ; 1,700 bushels of barley ; 47,000 bushels of 

 oats ; 430,000 bushels of potatoes ; 77,000 bushels of esculent 

 vegetables ; 70 tons of millet ; 25,000 tons of hay ; 126,000 



