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Germany, her cloths, and glass. Holland sends her gins, pins, 

 and delf wares. Italy sends us her figs, currants, raisins, 

 olive oil, gewgaws and beggars. Sweeden and Russia, send 

 their iron, cordage, and furs. Africa furnishes us ivory for 

 the handles of our knives, and for combs. Central America 

 sends her mahogany wood to make our tables, chairs and 

 bureaus. 



We use the teas of China, her porcelains and silks. We 

 have the wares of Japan, the coffee of Java and of Mocha — of 

 Brazil, of Cuba, and the West Indian isles — -their sugar also. 

 We have the spices of the East Indian islands, and the cocoa nuts 

 of the islands of the Austral Asians — their tortoise shell, and 

 their pine apples. — We use the oil and bones of the whales of 

 the arctic oceans, about each pole. 



We use the furs of the Northwest coasts of America. We 

 use the skins, and fur of the seals of the far southern islands 

 of the Pacific ocean, and the tins of Banda, and of England. 

 We have in our Cincinnati Museums, specimens of nearly 

 every mineral, and of every animal in the woz-ld. 



Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama furnish us with cotton 

 and sugar. We import lead from Galena and Du Buque — furs, 

 skins and peltries from the Rocky Mountains, and send them 

 our productions in return. 



We- import the manufactures of our own eastern states — ■ 

 glass, and the manufactures of iron from Pittsburgh — shoes 

 and leather from all the cities, east of us— their cotton and 

 woolen goods— their fishes, and all sorts of manufactured ar- 

 ticles, either of wood, iron or steel. Paints, dye stuffs, drugs 

 and medicines are imported. We feed our eastern brethren, 

 and they clothe us, and they send us medicines to keep us hi 

 health, or cure us, when sick, so that we can furnish them 

 with meat and bread to eat, and horses to ride on, or be drawn 

 along by, in their carriages, on their roads. 



We build steamers for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, 

 and they send us sugar and cotton in return. We send cabi- 

 net ware to the west, northwest and south-.— so of whiskey, 

 flour, pork, dried fruits, &c. 



