The works then consisted of a moulding house ; i gun foundry ; tlu-ee

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honourable Gouverncur Kemble, an intimate and life-long friend of Irving and Paulding, and a former proprietor, withdrew from active participation in the business of the establishment several years ago, and is now enjoying life there in elegant retirement, and dispensing a generous hospitality. He has a gallery of rare and excellent pictures, and a choice library; and is surrounded by evidences of refined taste and thorough cultivation.

Leaving the residence of Mr. Kemble at twilight, we made our way

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through the grove, and the village of Cold Spring beyond, to <'TJndercliflf," the summer dwelling of America's best lyric poet, George P. Morris, who

cupolas ami tlu'ee aii- f uniaces ; two boriug mills ; tlu'ee blacksmiths' shops ; a trip-hammer weighing eight tons for heavy wrought iron-work ; a turning shop ; a boiler shop ; and several other buildings used for various purposes. The quantity of iron then used varied with the nature and demand of work. Upwards of fifty tons of pig metal had been melted for a single casting. The annual consumption varied from 5,000 to 10,000 tons, with about 1,000 tons of boiler-plate and wrought-iron. The number of hands then employed was about 500. Sometimes 700 men were at work there. The establishment is conducted by Bobert P. Parrott, Esq., formerly a captain of Ordnance in tlie United States Army, and the inventor of the celebrated " Pan-ott gun," so extensively used, as among the best of the heavy ordnance, during the late Civil War-. These, with appropriate projectiles, were manufactured in great numbers at the West Point Foundiy, during the war, from 1861 to 1865.