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and Baltimore, Castor and Wool hats are made, equal to the best in Europe. There are but few Stocking looms; and the stockings that are woven in those of the different towns and cities, are very coarse: those of Germantown, near Philadelphia, are the best. There is not a single manufactory of silk stuffs in the whole United States; and with the exception of what comes from China, this costly branch of luxury is principally supplied to the Americans by the French
Candles of tallow, a few of wax, and a great many of spermaceti, are manufactured in the country. Nantucket, a small town of Rhode Island, has the reputation of making the best spermaceti candles; they are in fact the whitest, but they are inferior to those made in the North of Europe.
Paper mills are common in all the States: there is a great consumption of writing, as well as of printing paper, throughout the country, but it is made of cotton, and is of very bad quality.
The Americans follow the example of the English in various articles of their industry: they manufacture all sorts of leather articles, which differ but little from the English. They export to the Spanish islands, and others in that quarter of America, and even to Venezuela and other places on the Continent, large quantities of horse trappings, shoes and boots, principally from Salem, Boston, Providence, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The
