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E conclude, with the cloſe of the year, the Firſt Volume of the Commercial, Agricultural, and Manufa@urers? MAGAZINE, containing only Five Numbers, or 400 pages. It is ſomewhat leſs bulky than the Volumes of Magazines 1in gene- ral often are. But it would have been aukward to make the firſt Number for the New Year, the ¿aft of the Volume: and we did not wiſh to trick our readers, unexpeétedly, into the neceſſity of purchaſing an Appendix.

Our ADVERTISEMENT, prefixed to the firſt Number, un- folded the plan upon which we intended to proceed.“The NC- ceſlion of theſe five Numbers has ſhewn, how far we are able to accompliſh our views and fulfil our engagements. Yet our re& ders will candidly refle&, that the ADVERTISEMENT neceſſarily regarded the whole future progreſs of our Work; and that, in the few months which bave paſſed ſince its commencement, ut 1s little more than barely opened.

In AGRICULTURE, however, we have already been able to preſent to them PAPERS which explain the only true fertilizing ation of Manures—the important utility of Zorſes, as beaſts of draught and burthen—the poſſibility of drying Corn in the Sheaf, by means of contrivances which ſhall defy all the evils of our un- certain climate—an improvement in the conſtruétion ot Harrows, which being founded upon the true principles of common ſenſe and ingenious mechaniſm, cannot fail to prove eminently bene- ficial,—with a multiplicity of other articles on ſubjeéts the moſt important, within the range of agricultural knowledge.

In the department of coMMERCIAL knowledge, we have ex- plained, the true economy of the Sugar Trade,—the influence of the National Debt upon Commerce,—the miſerable folly of the illegal In/urfince of Lottery Tickets—the importance of Com- merce, as a ſpring for multiplying the powers of Induſtry—thé firſt riſe of the Intercourſe of Traffic in ancient Egypt, Aſlſyria, and Hindooſtan,—its progreſs under the agency oí the S:donians and Tyrians, while the inland trade of Aſia was combined with the commercial navigation of the Mediterranean Sea. A multi- tude of ſmaller articles of commercial ¿nformation have been 1n- terſperſed, from which our candid Teaders may eaſily judge, how far we are likely to rènder the commercial part of ou Magazine truely worthy of their regard.

As to MANUFACTURES; we have exhibited ſketches of the chemical ratio of Bleaching ,—ot the preparation of Sugar by the Hindoos,—of the mode of dyeingthe ancient Tyrian Purple,—ot the riſe, progreſs, and preſent ſtate of Patent Rights to the pros