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glazed cases full of costly jewerly and richly chased silver and 

 gold, then stooping curiously to admire the delicate needle work 

 which pourtrays a garden of flowers upon delicate lace or mus- 

 lin, or on the bosom of some bridal shirt, or richly adorned 

 kerchief for some fair maiden's neck, I turned suddenly and find 

 myself amid a load of Flora's, Cere's and Pomona's stores most 

 enticing and provokingly made of tinted composition, and placed 

 in competition, as it were, with the originals, to puzzle the cu- 

 rious in distinguishing them. 



Again, I find myself surrounded with the more cumbersome 

 implements of husbandry, but all in gala dress, and come with 

 bright faces to the fair. The plough here shines with unwonted 

 lustre, and the scythe equals the razor or the surgeon's knife in 

 edge and polish. A stack of long square bars of American cast 

 steel, equal to the best of English make, looms up before me to 

 indicate that the prediction hazarded in a former part of this 

 address is already accomplished. 



I pass by a series of glass jars and casks filled with white 

 oxide of zinc, and shining pannels, easily mistaken for white 

 Chinaware, exemplify its value as a pure and spotless unchanga- 

 ble white innocuous paint. This, too, is a new American pro- 

 duction from the New- Jersey zinc mines, and a true bringing 

 home to our country of Le Clairs's most valuable discovery. 



I turn again into a room filled with whizzing, hissing, clank- 

 ing machinery, driven by the power of fire and water, where 

 this accommodating steam spirit, invisible to the eye, lends his 

 giant strength and hundred hands to every kind of machine 

 that the ingenuity of man has devised for manufacturing useful 

 products. Here planing iron, there spinning cotton, braiding 

 silk and knitting bobbin in a dance of spools, while, at the same 

 time, he piints his " bill of the play ," chews iron in sport, 

 turns a hundred lathes with his foot, and saws and turns wood 

 for exercise, and goes into all kinds of arts and manufactures 

 without danger of failure, and with no disposition to " strike," 

 80 long as his attendants allow him wood or coal, and water, for 

 food, and drink. 



