Intelligence, tyc. 393 



the author. It was written on the borders of eighty with a 

 neatness and precision, truly remakable. It furnishes a pic- 

 ture of the industry of a simple Canton, which, within a 

 compass of twelve miles by six, includes one hundred and 

 seventy nine factories, employing more than eight thousand 

 workmen of all ages, distributing among them four millions 

 in wages, and pouring into the commerce of the country 

 about sixteen million of produce. Liancount is the nu- 

 cleus of this fruitful activity, and has given an impulse to it 

 by its own example. Each manufactory is rapidly descri- 

 bed, with the history of its foundation, its vicissitudes, its 

 progress and the causes which have contributed to them, 

 with a detail of the sources whence the raw materials are 

 drawn, the sale of its products, and the extent and the merit of 

 its operations. It is impossible to include in a narrow com- 

 pass a greater number of instructive facts. In inviting us 

 also to verify the happy results obtained in the Canton of 

 Creil by this development of labor, he adds, " we shall eve- 

 ry where observe a reciprocity of benevolence established 

 between masters and workmen ; and we may, if we are in- 

 clined, consult the authorities, civil and religious, to learn 

 from them that the introduction of (manufacturing) industry 

 into their commune, has produced in the manners of the peo- 

 ple an amelioration which becomes every day more obvious." 

 These are almost the last ideas traced by his hand, and 

 we perceive in them in some sort an epitome of those which 

 occupied and directed his whole life. 



: Extracted from the notice of the Dukede la Rochefoucauld, 

 read before the society for the encouragement of national in- 

 dustry by Baron Degerando. — Bull. cPEncour. Mai, 1827. 



II. Domestic. 



1. Singular organic relic. — A workman recently broke 

 a mass of very firm conglomerate rock, quarried for the 

 new State House now building at New Haven, and found, 

 lodged in a cavity, so completely enclosed as to exclude the 

 possibility of external introduction — a piece of wood,* the 

 small limb of a tree, apparently of the pine family — with the 

 bark entire — the wood not mineralized — but fresh, and in 



* We did not see the specimen of wood, but the facts were reported by cred- 

 ible witnesses. — Ed. 



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