Travels in New-England and New-York

The principal American manufactures of lead were shot, and colours of lead. There were two establishments for the manu- ~ facture of shot in Philadelphia, and one in Louisiana, more than sufficient to supply the demand of six hundred tons a year. Five hundred and sixty tons of red and white lead, litharge, and some other preparations of that metal, were made in Philadelphia alone.

Other paints and colours are also prepared in Philadelphia and some other places.

The manufacture of tin-ware is very extensive; and Connecticut supplies the greater part of the United States with that article.

Plated ware, chiefly for coach-makers and saddlers, employs at Philadelphia seventy-three workmen. It is also made to a considerable extent in New-York, Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, New-Haven, Northampton, and elsewhere.

Saltpetre is found in Virginia, Kentucky, and several other places, but is principally imported from the East Indies.

The manufacture of gunpowder was nearly, and might at any moment be made wholly adequate to the consumption. The importation of foreign powder amounted annually to two hundred thousand pounds; the exportation of American to one hundred thousand.

A sufficient quantity of the coarser species of pottery was made everywhere. Four manufactories of a finer kind had lately been established, which made ware resembling that of Staffordshire.

Twenty-seven thousand boxes of window-glass were made annually at ten glass manufactories, or two million seven hundred thousand square feet. Exactly the same quantity was annually imported. The glass made at Boston was inferior to none brought from Europe. The rest made green, or German glass.

Other glass wares, such as bottles, &c., were made also; and at two glass works in Pittsburg was manufactured flintglass of every description, and of a superior quality..

Copperas was extracted in large quantities from pyrites in Vermont, New-Jersey, and Tennessee. About two hundred thousand pounds of sulphuric and other acids were annually manufactured at a single establishment in Philadelphia. Other

preparations and drugs were also made in that city, and several other places; and the annual exportations exceeded thirty thousand dollars in value.

The salt springs in the state of New-York furnished about three hundred thousand bushels a year, and those in the western states and territories about the same quantity. The Wabash Saline, the property of the United States, yielded annually one hundred and thirty thousand bushels. The annual importation of foreign salt amounted, however, to more than three millions of bushels, and could not be superseded by American salt, unless by establishments on the coast.

Straw bonnets and hats were made, in a small district in Massachusetts and Rhode-Island, to such an extent, that the exportations to other parts of the Union amounted in value to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars annually. Work of this kind in great quantities is made, also, in many other places.

An establishment had been formed near Baltimore for the printing of calicoes, at which twelve thousand yards might be printed in a week.

I have now given you the substance of the secretary's report, which is to be considered as the most correct and extensive account of the manufactures of the United States, which to that time had been obtained. He adds, that from this imperfect sketch it may with certainty be inferred, that the product of the whole manufacturing interest annually exceeds one hundred and twenty millions of dollars.

Since the loose return, on which the above report is founded, another, which, with some abatements, may be considered as complete for the year 1810, was forwarded to the secretary of the treasury by order of the government. That rendered by Massachusetts is included in the following table: