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cing to wealth and importance, as the western part at 

 America. The time is easily recollected by thousands 

 around ul-, when the sound of the axe was unheard in 

 our forests, and savages and beasts of prey inhabite<t 

 every part of the states of Kentucky, Tenntssce, Ohio, 

 &c. The contrast is as sublime as it is astonishing The 

 arts and sciences have already attained to a tlegrco of 

 perfection, which in many countries would ha\ e ri>quir' 

 ed the experience ofcentm'ies ; and in no part of the con- 

 tinent has agriculture flourished to a gi'eater extent. The 

 world might in vain be searched for a country, where all 

 the necessaries, and many of the luxuries of life, could be 

 so easily obtamed, as in this favoured clime. Manufac- 

 tories, also, have recently received considerable attenti- 

 on — and we sincerely trust that the day is not very di- 

 stant, when our farmers shall no longer be under the ne- 

 cessity of pedling the surplus products of their farms to 

 provide decent and comfortable apparel for their families^ 

 As a corroboration of the reasonableness of this hope, it 

 may be well to state that in procuring their late supplies 

 of goods, our merchants begin to think it proper to pur- 

 chase smaller quantities of foreign cloths than they have 

 been in the habit of procuring, and to make much greater 

 purchases of Domestic Manufactures. 



At this day the western country exhibits a. scene of 

 prosperity, unrivalled by the examples of former years. 

 The season has been unusually propitious, and crops 

 ■were never known to be so abundant as at present. 

 Corn will be a drug — it is said that it can be purchased 

 m some places for ten or twelve cents per bushel. 

 Wheat is in great abundance, although it has sustained 

 some small injury from a species of the Hessian fly. The 

 crops of rye exceed those of former years. The quanti- 

 ty offruit (with the single exception of peaclies) has ne- 

 ver been equalled in this countr}' — and every other pro- 

 duction of the earth bears at least an equal proportion to 

 the above. 



[Nat. Intelligencer. 1 



