in the United States . 
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East Tennessee 17 ? 531 ; and West Tennessee, chiefly in 
Jackson, Warren, White, and Smith counties, 144,895 ; 
making nearly half a million pounds of home-made nitre, 
as good as that usually brought from foreign parts* It is 
alleged, the quantity may be increased to any desirable 
amount. The connexion of this with numerous manu- 
factories of gun-powder, puts us quite at our ease as to 
the nitrate of potash, and to the means we possess of 
compounding it. 
The manufacture of straw is eminently worthy of no- 
tice. In Massachusetts, where the forming of bonnets 
from that material seems to have first begun, the yearly 
amount of the sales is not less than $ 551,988. The ma- 
nufacture of straw bonnets has been since undertaken in 
Connecticut, and produces the yearly value of $27,100 ; 
and it is worthy of remark, that the labours of two wo- 
men in New- Jersey, in the same way, yielded them $140, 
amounting to the sum of $579,^28, for the single article 
of straw bonnets. 
Nor is the preparation of sugar from the juice of the 
maple-tree unimportant. Of this domestic sweet, Ohio 
produces, in a twelve-month, 3,023,806 pounds ; Ken- 
tucky, 2,471,647 ; Vermont, 1,200,000 ; and East Ten- 
nessee, 162,340 : making a quantity of nearly seven mil- 
lion pounds in these states only, wherein the returns may 
be conceived to be greatly within the truth. 
Works in horn, ivory, and shell, have made a progress 
that is worthy of notice. The combs, for instance, which 
Connecticut prepares annually for market, are estimated 
at $ 70,000 ; Massachusetts $ 80,624 ; and Pennsylvania 
$6,240 5 equalling a sum of $ 156,864. 
I may mention too the abundance of copperas which 
West Tennessee and Vermont afford. The quantity per 
annum from the former, is stated at 56,000 lbs. ; and 
from the latter, at 8,000. The quality of these sulphates 
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