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The price of a horse is from forty to eighty dollars; of a cow from ten to twelve; a sheep, two.

Manufactures.-At Cincinnati there are various manufactures of cotton and wool, and a steam-mill has been erected, of seventy horse power, on a rock on the beach of the river. The building is eighty-seven by sixty-two feet, and 110 in height. The walls are ten feet thick. The expence of building was 120,000 dollars. There are six pair of stones, and when in complete operation it will grind 1000 barrels of flour per week. There is also a steam saw-mill, of twenty horse power, which cuts about 800 feet per hour. There is a cotton and woollen factory; the former with 3300 spindles, the latter with 400. There are, besides, four cotton-spinning establishments, the whole number of spindles about 1500. A woollen manufactory, producing sixty yards of broad cloth per day, commenced in 1815. There are two extensive rope walks, and two glass factories. The "Cincinnati Manufacturing Company" have extensive stores above the mouth of Mill creek. * At Zanesville an association has been formed, under the name of the "Zanesville Canal and Manufacturing Company," for manufactures of iron, cotton, wool, hemp, flax, paper, &c. The machinery of the woollen manufactory at Stenbenville is also moved by steam; and New Lisbon, Chillicothe, Marietta, Worthington, have also made consi

* In 1817 Cincinnati was estimated to contain 8000 inhabitants, all whites. The greatest part of this flourishing town has been raised up within four years. Palmer's Travels, p. 71. Birkbeck's Notes, p. 81. Western Gazetteer.

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The steam-boat Washington, built at Wheeling in * 1816, is 148 feet in length; her main cabin 60 feet; the engine, which weighs only 9000 pounds, has the power of 100 horses. The first sea-rigged vessel of the Ohio river, the St Clair, of 120 tons, was built at Marietta, in 1799, in north latitude 39° 34'. Shipbuilding has been lately revived at this place under the direction of a "Commercial and Exporting Company." More than twenty boats were built at and near Columbus on the Scioto river in 1817, for the purpose of carrying flour to New Orleans; and a still greater number at Delaware, Circleville, and Chillicothe, each to carry 300 barrels. The voyage from Louisville to New Orleans and back is performed by the steamboats in 35 or 40 days.-(American Register.)

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Common pottery is made at Cincinnati, and a glassmanufactory has been lately established. Scythes are manufactured at Cincinnati at twenty dollars per dozen. Sickles at ten dollars. Screw augers cheaper than those imported. The Scioto saltworks, situated near the centre of Jackson county, which belong to the United States, furnish a considerable quantity of salt.

Products of Vegetable Substances.

Cotton goods made in families, yards, 56,072,

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Woollen cloth made in families, yards, 93,074,

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In 1811 the general assembly of the state enacted, that each person who had a family should be allowed to keep twelve sheep, and that their wool, and all the yarn and cloth manufactured by them, should be exempt from all attachment, distresses, or executions. The gross value of all these manufactures, according to the marshal's return, was estimated at 2,894, 290 dollars.

The annual product of a common tree is about ten pounds of sugar. The sap is extracted in the months of February and March. In the process of briling it is cleared with animal jelly. Eggs, milk, or glue, and a small portion of unslacked lime, are thrown in to take up the superabundant acid; and thus prepared, it is sold at ten or twelve cents a pound.

derable progress in manufactures and the mechanical arts. Coarse linen and yarn are now articles of expor

tation.

The steam-boat Washington, built at Wheeling in 1816, is 148 feet in length; her main cabin 60 feet; the engine, which weighs only 9000 pounds, has the power of 100 horses. The first sea-rigged vessel of the Ohio river, the St Clair, of 120 tons, was built at Marietta, in 1799, in north latitude 39° 34'. Shipbuilding has been lately revived at this place under the direction of a "Commercial and Exporting Company." More than twenty boats were built at and near Columbus on the Scioto river in 1817, for the purpose of carrying flour to New Orleans; and a still greater number at Delaware, Circleville, and Chillicothe, each to carry 300 barrels. The voyage from Louisville to New Orleans and back is performed by the steamboats in 35 or 40 days.-(American Register.)

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Common pottery is made at Cincinnati, and a glassmanufactory has been lately established. Scythes are manufactured at Cincinnati at twenty dollars per dozen. Sickles at ten dollars. Screw augers cheaper than those imported. The Scioto saltworks, situated near the centre of Jackson county, which belong to the United States, furnish a considerable quantity of salt.

Products of Vegetable Substances.

Cotton goods made in families, yards, 56,072,

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Products of Animal Substances.

Woollen cloth made in families, yards, 93,074,

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In 1811 the general assembly of the state enacted, that each person who had a family should be allowed to keep twelve sheep, and that their wool, and all the yarn and cloth manufactured by them, should be exempt from all attachment, distresses, or executions. The gross value of all these manufactures, according to the marshal's return, was estimated at 2,894,290 dollars.

The annual product of a common tree is about ten pounds of sugar. The sap is extracted in the months of February and March. In the process of briling it is cleared with animal jelly. Eggs, milk, or glue, and a small portion of unslacked lime, are thrown in to take up the superabundant acid; and thus prepared, it is sold at ten or twelve cents a pound.

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