INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES, ETC., OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STATES: EMBRACING A VIEW OF THEIR COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, Together with HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL SKETCHES OF THE DIFFERENT STATES AND CITIES OF MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, NEW-ORLEANS; 79 JOHN STREET, NEW-YORK; AND EAST BAY AND BROAD STREETS, CHARLESTON .... 1852. 233e 129 The paper on the Early History of Mississippi, page 21, is from the pen of the Hon. J. M. Chilton; that on Maryland, by R. G. Barnwell, Esq.; on Missouri and North Carolina, by Prof. Duncan; on the Mexican Republic, Hon. Joel R. Poinsett; Mexican Mines, Brantz Mayer; Manufacturing Industry, 101, Senator James, of R. I.; NewYork, T. P. Kettell; Negro Slavery, Chancellor Harper and Hon. J. H. Hammond; Negro Laws of the South, Hon. J. B. O'Neal; Negro Diseases, Dr. Cartwright; Negro Life Insurance, Dr. J. C. Nott; Pennsylvania, A. W. Ely, M. D.; Rice, R. W. Allston, of S. C., &c. OTHE BIB MISSISSIPPI RIVER-Its Sources, Mouth and Valley; the Balize, Etc... A Sketch of the General Character, Soil, Climate, Productions, Emigration, Pros- pects, Etc..... MARYLAND-Historical Events, Government, Resources, Improvements, Commerce, City of MAINE-Its Early History, Physical Aspect, Agricultural and Mineral Resources, Commerce, MISSOURI-History, Government, Courts, Boundaries and Surface, Natural Productions and Climate, Rivers, Towns, Mineral Resources, Internal Improvements, Population, Educa- 68 Mines and Mineral Resources. MEXICO-Products of Sugar, Cotton, Rice and Indigo.. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY-Theory of Manufactures, their Progress, Origin and Growth of Influence of, on the Growth of Cities... Progress of Cotton Manufactures in the U. S.. Extension of Cotton and Wool Factories at the South. Prices of Commodities, Etc., for Different Years. Importance of Increasing her Foreign Commerce-Her Banking Capital.. NEW-YORK-Commercial Growth and Greatness of New-York-Position of City; Origin of New-York, Early History, Advances, Improvements, Population, Resources, Commerce, NORTH CAROLINA-Colonial Revolutionary and Subsequent History, Physical Condition, Pro- 205 |