A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . as10S,S30. Of these there were: whj^males, 51,362; females, 54,225: freecolored males, 1,S25; females, 1,413;slaves (superannuated and suj)ported bytheir masters, and therefore excepted bythe law of emancipation), 5. Personsemployed in commerce, 1,340 ; in agri-culture, 16,000; in manufacture andtrade, Money-value of agricultural industry,,800, or 834 per head. The imports were ; exports, Exports of domestic prod-ucts. 8203,006: foreign, 83,983. Ordinary revenue, $52,000. —This place possesse
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . as10S,S30. Of these there were: whj^males, 51,362; females, 54,225: freecolored males, 1,S25; females, 1,413;slaves (superannuated and suj)ported bytheir masters, and therefore excepted bythe law of emancipation), 5. Personsemployed in commerce, 1,340 ; in agri-culture, 16,000; in manufacture andtrade, Money-value of agricultural industry,,800, or 834 per head. The imports were ; exports, Exports of domestic prod-ucts. 8203,006: foreign, 83,983. Ordinary revenue, $52,000. —This place possesses oneof the best harbors in the United entrance is guarded by Fort Adams,and the scenerv about it is asjreeable. Forf Adofnii, on Brentons point, em-braces an extent of one hundred andthirty acres. A ransfe of jjuns lines theshore towaid the west, and the case-mates, &:c., are very strong. Newport extends about a mile alongthe shoie, but presents the aspect ofdecay, as the commerce has been re-moved to Providence. The situation. 25 •ao. 136 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND. liowever, has many advantages, and this,\vitl\ the cheapness of rent, will prob-ably render it the temporary abode ofmany strangers during the warm houses are thickly clustered aboutthe margin of the town, but make rathera gloomy appearance on account of tliewant of repair, the place having expe-rienced a gradual declension caused bythe success of Providence, thirty milesfurther up. The beach behind the town, like thewhole circuit of the city on the landside, was defended by a line of troops,batteries, &:c., during the possession ofit by the English in the revolutionarywar; and the opposite high groundswere occupied by the American army,whose head(|uarters were on Taumonyhill, about a mile and a half from thetown—an elevation which affords an ex-tensive view on eveiy side. GeneralPrescott was taken here during the warby a bold party of men under ColonelBarton, who landed s
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