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run away. Admire the new and strange lines of that model 

 yacht before you! and Victoria's silver vase, its prize! The 

 America beat all the yachts — some eight hundred af them, and, 

 over and above them, 25,000 sailing vessels. All, all ! that 

 England has afloat. 



As to our third article, manufactures, this castle teems with 

 thousands of evidences of American advancement. How you 

 admire them ! How much do I, and those of my generation — the 

 men of seventy years of age — when we compare the very few 

 and imperfect manufactures of our early days. What a total 

 revolution in the manufacture of cloths, of cotton, wool, and 

 other materials. To enumerate would require volumes. What 

 works in iron ; our locomotives by thousands running here and 

 in Russia, and what mountains of iron ore, and what mines of 

 coal. Why, within a short time past scientific men have found 

 in Iowa, and thereabouts, twenty thousand square miles of coal 

 additionally to our former stock. After covering our planet with 

 Rail-roads, we could furnish all our sister planets with a net-work 

 of rails. Although our mills and hammers are at present check- 

 ed, yet a brief future will renew their movement and redouble 

 their work, and the fires of the furnace will be re-lighted never 

 again to stop. A straw cutter was a desideratum to the farmers; 

 a root-cutter, and, at last, look at that one cutting hickory hoop- 

 poles an inch and-a-half thick into inch pieces as easily as the 

 corn stalks, to all appearances. We used in old times to admire 

 the polished steel ornament of ladies, and the little mathematical 

 instruments in their shagreen cases. Now look into that case of 

 polished tools. What gems of art from the broad axe^ which 

 hews the hard live oak for ships, to the cooper's adze. They are 

 fit charms to be suspended from the watch-chain of the goddess 

 of American liberty, and she will add those radiant steel saws of 

 our fellow citizen. Hoe. May she wear such charms a thousand 

 years. Bramah, of England, like some oriental deity, held the 

 implicit faith of England till Hobbs dispelled the charm ; Hobbs 

 of Massachusetts. London comes here for her tailor's shears. 

 The best cut cloths of Londoners are cut by New- York shears. 

 In elegant manufactures for ladies' apparel, from crown to foot, 



