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MANUF ACTUitI!S, ETC: ~09Theextensiveness of such an investigation i8 obvious. Equally 50 isit~how Httle applicable must be the researches in one place to enable toform a judgement in another. Still, assiduity will obtain its reward :matter ofinterest'is presented everywhere.GENERALOBSERVATIONs.-The verdigrise trade is in activity:.'rhe artifieial sodas have oflate beenadoptedin the branches Qf manufactureinto whichthey enter; and that article is no longer one of importation.The tanneries are active here. 'fhisis themore remarkable, as inthe west of :France their fine decid lIOUS Gak ls seen èonstantly felled wiùldrebark remaining unstripped; prohably owing tocosts of carriage:­btrt'itind'icates a defect in statistics 80mewhere. Here theprocess i8executed with thebark ofthe 1'091 of the ever-gr.een oak. The rocl~ywastes i11to which no implement oonenter, whieh gunpowder onlycouM workupen, were once overrun with this weedofthe forest. Thesehave been fong eut down forfue!; but the stumps remain, just markedout bya few twigs. A woman now carns fifty sOus pel' day hy grubbingùp these for the tan-yard.They cure the Ieather more effeetuaUy int:wo monlhs than other bark does in six, or in a year.This quality wasooly diseoveredreeentlJ, and hy accident. It is only the peeling ofsuehstubbed roots thatwiH do, they say. Business is now very activein· Îit.Tiredas the public was ofwar,theydreaded still more the return oft:heir own armies; indeed, feared their countrymen in arms more thanthe national enemies. These are returned; and "ce sont des agn'eau.r/)is now the expression conèerning them, and de5erv€dly 50. They areextremelywell-behaved 1l0W in quarters: the peace of: the towns is noway disturbed by them.effect of ~The town5..people now account for this as ansuperior class of men having gooe into the ranks in consequ.enceof the -cons'cription; and It may he so.VOL. II.To escape the con..