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than the Americans, they have supplanted the latter, leaving them little or nothing to gain by that trade.
There are also manufactories of gun powder in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one was established, three or four years ago, by a Frenchman, near Washington, in the State of Delaware;[1] but all these manufactories are of little consideration, badly managed, and very inferior to those of Europe.
It will be seen, from what has been said, that the Americans still depend upon Europe in relation to manufactures; and that it is not possible to
perfect or multiply their own, under the present system of their government and laws, and during the existing order of things. Each manufactory has, in general, worked hitherto only for the district, or at most for the state, in which it is established, and the amount of exports of American manufactures for the whole Union is very trifling: the value does not exceed the sum of five millions
- ↑ The author has, several times, made use of the phrase "near Washington, in the State of Delaware," which might lead foreigners into the errour of supposing, that Washington was in that State. The powder mills referred to, are situated on the Brandywine creek, near Wilmington, in the State of Delaware; and the powder made by M. Dupont, is regarded as inferior to none manufactured in any part of the world. T.
