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are also to be of brick. The log-houses stand in the rear of the 
line which the new houses are to occupy in the street, so that 
when in time they wish to erect brick buildings, it may be done 
without incommoding the tenants of the log dwellings. Mr. 
Rapp’s residence speaks rather freely against the equality he 
preaches to his people, yet without exciting jealousy or becoming 
a stumbling block. It consists of a principal building twx> stories 
high, with two lower wings standing in the same line, and is 
adorned with beautiful Philadelphia paper. At the back of the 
house is a piazza and balcony. There is also a garden containing 
several acres with flowers and vegetables, as well as a vineyard, 
situated on a terrace-shaped half circle on the hill, ending in a 
bower. I especially admired the beautiful tulips of this garden, 
in the midst of which is a round basin with a noble spring. Mr/ 
Rapp intends to build a temple here, in which he will place a 
statue of Harmony: the statue is now ready. It is the work 
of a carver in Philadelphia, and is a colossal wooden figure, like 
the figure-head of a ship. In the garden are several cottages, 
one of them is roofed with sods, and is used for a pastry house. 
On the top is a sort of seat, where hereafter musicians are to 
sit; within there is a temporary frame hall. Near the garden 
is the green-house; this house, as well as the garden, is under the 
inspection of a very pretty girl, Miss Iiildegard, a relative of 
Mr. Rapp, and possessed of much botanical knowledge. The 
women of this community have all preserved their Swabian 
costume, even to their straw hats, and they look very becom- 
ingiy. 
In the cotton and woollen factories, all the machinery is set in 
motion by a high-pressure engine of seventy horse-power, made 
in Pittsburgh. The machine pumps the water from a well fifty 
feet deep, sunk for the purpose. The community possesses some 
fine sheep, among which are many Merino and Saxon: they pur¬ 
chase wool, however, from the surrounding farmers, who have 
already begun to raise it to bring to Economy. As soon as the 
wool is washed, it is picked by the old women of the community, 
who work in the fourth story, whence it is reconveyed by a sort of 
tunnel into the lower story. The wool is then separated accord¬ 
ing to its quality into four classes, dyed together in the dye-house 
near the manufactory, returned to the mill, where it is combed, 
coarsely spun, and finally wrought into fine yarn by a machine 
similar to the spinning jenny. As soon as spun, it is placed in 
the loom and wrought into cloth, this is placed in a steam ful¬ 
ling-mill, so arranged that the steam from the engine is made to 
answer the purpose of soap and fuller’s earth, which is a great 
saving. The cloth is shorn by means of a cylinder, upon which 
a strong piece of steel turns. There is a model of this shearing- 
