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Maimfacturcs in the Miami Country 763 tablished himself in the blue dyeing business and advertised that he also would conduct a school where reading, writing and arithme- tic would be taught. James Dover apparently anticipated the coming Teutonic invasion of the forties by establishing what was probably the first brewery in Cincinnati; for in Liberty Hall of August 4, 1806, we find him advertising for five hundred pounds of hops, one thousand bushels of barley, and one thousand gallons of honey to be delivered at his brew-house. All told, eighty-one artisans were following various trades in Cincinnati in 1805 : they were two printers, one bookbinder, fifteen joiners- and cabinet- makers, eight blacksmiths, two coppersmiths, four hatters, three tanners, seven shoemakers, five saddlers, three silversmiths, seven tailors, five bakers, two brewers, three tobacconists and twelve brick- layers. This list indicates a somewhat rapid industrial develop- ment for a settlement that ten years before needed the protection of a stockade. By 1809 Cincinnati seems to have attracted a variety of work- men almost sufficient to meet the needs of the frontier metropolis. In that year the city was visited by John Melish. an observing and intelligent traveller, and to him we are indebted for a good account of the condition of manufacture at that time. After mentioning two cotton factories and some considerable breweries and distilleries, he also enumerated the following long list of artisans who found employment in Cincinnati : masons, stonecutters, brick-makers, car- penters, cabinet-makers, coopers, turners, wheelwrights, smiths, nailers, coppersmiths, tinsmiths, silversmiths, gunsmiths, clock and watchmakers, tanners, saddlers, boot and shoemakers, glove and breechmakers, weavers, dyer.s, tailors, printers, bookbinders, rope- makers, tobacconists, soap-boilers, candle-makers, comb-makers, painters, pot- and pearl-ash makers, butchers, bakers, brewers, dis- tillers, cotton spinners.^ Melish was sanguine in regard to the opportunities for the rise of manufactures in Cincinnati, but he made the mistake that many of her own citizens made in anticipating that the manufacturing expansion would be along the line of textile fabrics and glassware. Still, in consideration of the communication with the South that was beginning just then and the interest in sheep culture that was spread- ing to the West, it was not unreasonable to suppose that Cincinnati would soon become a centre of cotton and woollen manufactures. Of course, the influence of improved means of transportation and the great development in the water power of New England could not then be foreseen. jMelish was also of the opinion that the manu- ' Melish, Travels in the United States. II. 126, 1:7.