298 
Wood and Manufactures. of Wood.— 
All the branches of this manutacture are 
carried to a Ingh degree of perfection, 
supply the whole demand of the United 
States, and consist principally of cabinet 
ware, and other household furniture, 
coaches and carriages, either for pleasure 
or transportation, and ship-building. 
The ships and vessels above twenty 
tons burthen, built in the United States 
during the years 1801 a 1807, measvred. 
774,922 tons, making on an average 
about 110,000 tons a-year, and worth 
more than six millions of dollars. About 
two-thirds were registered-for the foreign 
trade, and the remainder licensed for the 
coasting trade and fisheries. 
Of the other branches, no particular 
account can be given. But theannual 
exportations of furniture and carnages 
aniount to 170,060 doliars. The value 
of -the whole, including sbip- buildmg, 
cannot be Jess than twenty millions of 
d:jlars a year. 
Under this head may also be menti- 
oned pot and pearlash, of which, be- 
sides supplying the internal demand, 
7,400 tons are aunually exported. 
Leather ard Bianufactures of Leather. 
— Tanneries ere established in every part 
of the United States, some of them ona 
very large scale; the capital employed in 
a siigie establishment amounting to one 
hundred thousand dollars. A few hides 
are exported, and it is stated that one- 
third of those used in the great tanneries 
of the Atlantic states, are imported from 
Spanish America. Some superior or 
particular kinds of English leather, and 
of morocco, are still imported; but 
about 350,000lbs.* of American leather 
are annually exported. The bark is 
‘abundant and cheap; and it appears 
that hides cost in America'5Z cents, and 
in England seven cents a pound; that the 
bark used for tarning, costs in England, 
nearly as much as the hides, and in 
America pot ore-tenth part of that sum. 
It is at the same time acknowledged that 
much American leather is brought to 
market of an inferior quality, and that 
better is generatly made in the middle 
than in the northern or southern states, - 
The tanneries of the state of Delaware 
‘employ collectively a capital of one hun- 
dred and twenty thousand dollars, and 
ninety workmen, and make annually 
400.000 dollars-worth of leather. ‘Those 
* Unless otherwise stated, the impor- 
ta:ions and exportations are, in this Report, 
ta'en om the avgtage of the years 1806 end 
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[Nov. 1, 
of Baltimore amount to twerity-two, 
seventeen of which have together a capi- 
tal of 187,000 dollars, and tan annually 
19,000 hides, and 25,060 calf skins. 
Morocco js aiso made in several places, 
partly from imported goat skins, and 
principally from sheep skins. And it 
may be proper here to add, that deer 
skins, which form au artiele of exporta~ 
tion, are dressed and manufactured in 
the United States to the amount required 
for the consumption of the country. 
The principal manufactures of leather 
are those of shoes and boots, harness, and 
saddles. Some imconsiderable quanti- 
ties of the two last articies are both ime 
ported and exported.. The annual im- 
portation of foreign boots and shoes, 
amounts to 3,250 pair boots and 59,000 
pair of shoes, principally kid and moe 
rocco. ‘The annual exportation of the 
same articles of American naanufacture, 
to 8.500 pair of boots and 127,000 pair 
of shoes. The shoe manufactures of 
New Jersey are extensive. ‘That ’ of 
Lynn, in Massachusetts, makes 100,000 
pair of women’s shoes annually. 
The value of all the articles annually 
manufactured in» the United States, 
which are embraced under this head 
(leather), may be estimated at twenty 
millions of dollars. 
Soap and Tullow Candles.—A great 
portion of the soap and candles used in 
the United States, is a family manufac. 
ture. But there are also several esta- 
biushments on an extensive scale in all 
the large cities, and several other places; 
Those of the village of Roxbury near 
Boston, employ alone a capital of one 
hundred thousand dollars, and make an« 
nually 370,000 pounds candles, $80,000 
pounds brown soap, and 50,000 pounds 
Windsor and fancy soap, with a profit, it 
is said, of 15 per ceutum on the eapital 
employed. 
The annual importations of foreign. 
manufacture, are candles 458,000 
pounds, svap 470,000 pounds. 
The annual exportations ef domestic 
manufacture, are candies 1,775,000 
pounds, soap 2,220,000lbs, 
The annual value manufactured in the 
United States, and including the quan- 
tity made in private families for their 
own use, cannot be estimated less than 
eight millions of dollars, 
Spermaceti Oil and Candles.—The 
establishments for this manufacture are 
at Nantucket and New Bedford-in Mas- 
sachusetts, and at Hudson in New York. 
Besides supplying the whole of the do» 
mestic consumption, they furnished an- 
3 nuallys 
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