, stoves, and tin plate by the box. 53 The manufacture of house pipe, or spouting, was begun in Lancaster by William P. Atlee at least a early as 1795.54 In view of the large county distilling industry, the copper liquor still was so much in demand that pictures of stills were occasionally used in adver

- ter. Lotteries, although freely employed for religious, educational, and internal improvement puposes, were practically never used to raise manufacturing capital in Lancaster County during the period of this study. Stiegel's flint glass lottery, the only lottery organized and authorized on behalf of a

Lancaster County is a roughly triangular area of land located in south- eastern Pennsylvania. Its greatest distance from east to west is about forty-six miles, while its northern and southern extremities are separated by about forty miles. The surface area covers approximately 941 square miles or 602,240

- tures, pp. 58-59. 122 C. B. Trego, A Geography of Pennsylvania, p. 270. �This great increase in the productive capacity of the distilleries is to be accounted for by technological progress in the industry. Between 1805 and 1834 residents of Lancaster County alone were granted nine separate patents for