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and the sailor, from the "white and from the bhack, have speci- 

 mens of skill come to adorn the hall a)id please its visitors. 

 Indeed, the Nantucket Agricultural Society seems to have acted 

 like a great magnet. You know wlien we hold a magnet over 

 a handful of sand, in which are particles of iron and steel, these 

 leap up and cling to the magnet, and thus show themselves. 

 Thus it is that the genius of labor has arisen in our midst, and 

 stretching out his magnetic hands over thesandy island, the true 

 iron and steel have sprung up to his embrace. Iron and steel, 

 the plough and the compass, labor and thought. 



