22 Information concerning Wool 



that of fine broad cloths. The merino breeders have 

 justly a high credit for their intelligence and exertions, 

 in extending their attention to that nice and curious ma- 

 nufacture. 



There appears in the United States a redundancy of 

 young men, collegiately educated in the arts and sciences^ 

 and of the classes, which usually apply to divinity, me- 

 dicine, law, and commerce. It is a truth, that a know- 

 ledge of the arts and sciences, is extremely valuable as 

 a preparative and a7i accompaniment to an intelligent 

 apprenticeship to manufactures. Mechanism, chemis- 

 try, metallurgy, hydraulics, geometry, mensuration, 

 pneumatics, the mechanic powers, natural history, &c. 

 &c. are very useful, and almost necessary in the 

 great manufacturing establishments, which enrich Eu- 

 rope. The powerful Lavoisier was placed at the head 

 of that manufacture of France, which now governs Eu- 

 rope — the art of making gunpowder. The good and 

 scientific Priestley poured a gratuitous flood of light 

 upon the metallick manufactures, which have enriched 

 Birmingham. The mechanical talents of Arkwright, 

 Bolton, Watt and others, informed by nature or in the 

 schools, have rendered the world tributary to Britain. 

 It is observed with great satisfaction that many of our 

 younger citizens of the most respectable connexions, 

 have recently applied themselves to the manufacturing 

 branches, and it is suggested, on much consideration, 

 that it may be well for themselves and for our country, 

 if a number of our best educated, best connected, and 

 best endowed young men should turn their earliest at- 

 tention, in the character of apprentices to the owners of 

 respectable establishments ^ to the manufacturing depart- 

 ment of our trade and commerce. 



