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manufactures, during a very recent period, has been 

 such as even to cause an alarm to the manufacturers of 

 France. Such has been their success, that now they 

 even annoy by their rivalry the French in the great mar- 

 kets of Frankfort and Leipsic ; and such their encour- 

 agement, that other Cantons who were only before en- 

 gaged in the manufacture of fine cottons, are now trans- 

 ferring their labors to silk. 



When, in 1810, Napoleon so strictly prohibited the 

 admission of cotton goods into France, the inhabitants 

 around the lake of Zurich transferred their labors, and 

 with signal success, to the manufacture of silk goods. 

 And when with the restoration of the Bourbons, the de- 

 testable persecutions for religion commenced ; arid dur- 

 ing 1815, 1816, 18 J 7, great numbers were induced to 

 emigrate from Lyons with their industry and skill, which 

 they carried to Zurich. Thus reinforced, Zurich, 

 which in 1814 contained not more than 2,000 looms, in 

 the beginning of 1828 already numbered from 9,000 to 

 10,000 looms, with extensive factories. 



The mulberry tree was first introduced to France by 

 the French who followed Charles VIII., in his ipvasion 

 of Italy in 1494, but no considerable results followed till 

 Traucat, a common gardener of Nismes, laid the 

 foundation of a most extensive nursery of white mul- 

 berry trees in 1504, from whence the whole southern 

 frovinces became covered with plantations. Henry 

 V. not only bestowed great encouragement and rewards 

 for the cultivation of the mulberry tree, and establishing 

 nurseries, but he naturalized the culture as far north as 

 Orleans, and manufactures of silk were now for the first 

 time established at Paris, and soon became general 

 throughout France. 



Even titles of nobility were offered and conferred by 

 this monarch on the first manufacturers, on condition 

 they should sustain them during twelve years. He also 

 planted the mulberry trees near Paris, and introduced 

 the silk-worms at the Tuilleries, and at Fontainbleau, 

 where they appear to have succeeded well. 



