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We have supplied orders from Mobile^ in Alabama,- Augusta, 

 in the state of Georgia; Apalaehicola, in Florida, and Charles- 

 ton, state of South Carolina^ and which was packed iu barrels and 

 delivered on shipboard at New- York. We have within the last 

 year sent some lots, packed in the same manner, to California. 



Philadelphia and its vicinity are large consumers of our sand. 

 Baltimore, in Maryland, is another important point in our trade. 

 We also send large quantities to different places in New Jersey, 



The principal cities in this State, such as New-York, Buffalo, 

 Oswego, Albany, Peekskill, Troy, Seneca Falls, Utica, and others, 

 are supplied from here. 



The cost of the sand is one dollar per ton, delivered on boat or 

 cars. The river, canal and railroads at this point are within a 

 stone's throw of each other. The cost of transportation varies 

 with the season of the year, but is always governed by the rates 

 from Troy and Albany. 



The sand is deposited in. layers varying from two feet to one 

 inch in thickness, and is on elevated lands. It is not uniform, 

 but is scattered in plots j one acre may be finely spread with it, 

 and the next acre not a particle of it ean be foimd. We have to 

 strip the land of the sod and a sand loam to a depth of from one 

 foot to two feet before reaching the moulding sand. It is in two 

 layers, the one resting on the other; the upper layer is the fine 

 sand and the under the coarse. Each layer is distinctly marked 

 and separated from the other, as if deposited at different times. 

 Under the sand is a coarse loam diflering entirely in its character 

 from the sand. The land from which it is taken is very fertile, and is 

 devoted to agricultural uses. The qualities which give the sand 

 its excellence are as well, if not better, known to you than to us. 

 The many and distant points to which it is taken very clearly 

 indicate the scarcity as well as the want and necessity of a sand 

 suitable and satisfactory for moulding purposes. 



Charles Clinton, of Brooklyn, exhibits and explains his newly 

 invented horse shoe, in which he uses India rubber in a sort of 

 iron case adapted to the form of the shoe. 



John Carr tried his new gas burner on the gas lights of the 

 room. He claims a brighter light from tlicm than is obtained 



