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4th. There is a number of elderly persons, whose strength is 
too much decayed for the toil of labourers or hired servants, and 
occupations where manufactories do not exist; who could be 
useful where they do ; including both sexes, their number may be 
taken at 400, and wages estimated at g 3 50 a week. 
5th. Beside the preceding account of entirely lost time, there is 
a considerable portion of many families that would be employed 
in branches of manufactures that admit of being given out ; such 
as tambouring, sewing up stockings, kc. kc. and supposing only 
one family in twenty took an interest in this, it would give 1000, 
whose industry would certainly produce gl a week. 
Now, without taking into account what would be gained by the 
capitalists who carried on the business— the merchants who sold 
the raw material and bought the manufactured goods— the incres- 
ed demand for the produce of agriculture — the spring given to ah 
ready existing trades — and the general effect on the country by 
such a creation of wealth, and keeping the circulation of money 
in the country ; let us form an estimate of one year’s gain of this 
100,000 people, who are but a small proportion of the eight mil- 
lion now belonging to the United States. 
First class, 1000 boys and girls at gl 25 a week would 
in the year produce g 65,000 
2d Class, 500 young women, gl 50 39,000 
3d Class, 500 labourers out of employ three months in the 
year, g.5 a week 32,500 
4th Class, 400 elderly persons, kc. g3 50 72,800 
5th Class, 1000 families, atgl 52,000 
g 261,300 
To carry on this business, not less than seven or eight hundred 
thousand dollars would be required for the manufacturing capital ; 
independent of the mercantile capital, direct and indirectly con- 
nected with it. J. R. 
I am much obliged to my respectable friend and correspon- 
dent for this short but practical paper : it will come home to the 
understandings and feelings of many readers who, like himself, 
would regard my lucubrations and Dr. Bollman’s, as useless and 
absurd. However, each of us in our way : we shall each of us 
do good to such of our readers, as may perchance be excited to 
think on these subjects. I would just observe, that although 
agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, are all necessary to a 
