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Every one had heard of the Metropolis of Pigs. And it is rightly so called for the greatness of Cincinnati is founded on cured pigs in a far greater degree than that of Holland was on pickled Herrings. Here are more than 200,000 souls maintained in life by breeding, fattening, killing, salting, packing, & exporting incredible millions of pigs. The 200,000 human beings are only 200,000,000 pigs in another form. The old & the young, the schools & the Churches, the politicians & the men of science of this great city are all created out of pig. Take away the pigs & they all disappear; double the pigs & they all are doubled.

And the influence of the pigs of Cincinnati is felt all over the world, when an East Anglian farmer sells his improved unclear, or Suffolk porker, its value is affected by the greater or less number of its breathren who grunted their last at Cincinnati during the previous year, or, as the Cincinnatians themselves would say, on the amount of the previous year's "pork crop."

Of course where so many pigs have to be disposed of one wd expect to find in America some time-x-labour-saving machinery; & I was told that if I went into any of the great factories, which, however, I did not do, I might see machinery in operation, by the aid of which