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mnnufacturcrs gr.^at profit*. Th» sail cloth factrry is. 

 now under engagement to deliver SOO pieces to the go- 

 VL'rnme it. 



*' Four factories for carding and spinning cotton ; the 

 oHcst os'ahlishcd here, 200 spindles; the next, one miilc 

 of 160 spiiulies ; another one a throstle, with 42 spindles ; 

 and the last is now commenced to spin, and is establish- 

 ed on the i rinciple of the New-England factories, the pro- 

 prietor calculating upon putting in motion, 1,000 spindles, 

 and has now a( uoika throstle with 1C8 sjWndlcs; in 

 the course of next month he starts a mule of 204 spindles. 

 The establishment has already cost upwards of 20,000 

 do'lars in lots, buildings, machinery, &c. and will pro- 

 gress gradually, as the machinery can be made till 1,000 

 spindles are in motion. The machinery is all made here ; 

 the cotfon yarns arc sold to the country, except what is 

 manufactured in town, into bedtickings, cords, jeans, 

 chamhrays, and plain goods, 



" There are three wool carding machines and one 

 forspinnino. W^e supp'y a part of Tenessee, Oiiio and 

 upper Loui iana, with hats, boots, and sho?s, and manu- 

 factured cotton and linen ; we have excellent white and 

 black smiths, cabinet makers (our cherry tree furniture 

 far surpasses in beauty the mahogany) fancy and Wind- 

 sor chair maker's, fancy chairs as high as seven dollars 

 eaeh, three carriage maker's shops, with numerous 

 others of th'2 diffeient employments. Our buildings are 

 of good coloured brick, put up in good style ; plenty of 

 the most beautiful white and variegated marble ; foot- 

 ways neatly paved with brick, and the middle of the 

 street with solid stone, firmly bedded. 



*' Oar exports are hemp, bale ropes, hempon yarns, 

 twine, fishing lines, seine twine, cables, tarred ropes, 

 white vvork generally, cotton bagging, sail cloth, manu- 

 factured tobacco, salt-pet- e, gun powder, cr.tp tobacco, 

 about 3,000 hogsheads yearly out of the Kentuck^'^ ri- 

 ver ; beef, pork, lard, tallow, candles, whiskey, 200,000 

 gUilona scut dovvn the river yeai'iy ; ^ur, bcansj pota. 



