ERFURT is a busy province or government of Prussian Saxony. The chief products are grain, flax, tobacco, hopS, oil, and salt. Great numbers of horses, horned cattle, sheep, goats, and swine are reared. In the circles of Weissensee and Schleusingen there are mines of iron, lead, and copper. Marble and gyp sum, as well as sulphur, are also among its mineral productions. Erfurt is likewise dis tinguished for its manufactures of iron and steelware, tin plates, seed-oil, woollen yarns, cloths, flannels, and carpets, linens, silks, cottons, stockings, paper, porcelain, glass, brandy, wooden clocks, &c.
Etia•t, the chief town, has considerable manufactures of cottons and woollens, besides less extensive ones of linens, ribbons, leather, soap, earthenware, meal, seed-oil, stockings, gloves, tobacco, &c., and it carries on a brisk trade in fruits, seeds, grocery and drugs, grain, &c. Miihlhauseu, an antient walled
town, has manufactures of woollen cloth, calicoes, beer, tobacco, spirits, leather, oil, glue, starch, &c.; it has also several dyeing and fulling mills. Nordhausen, an old fashioned Place girt with walls and towers, has very large distilleries, and manufactures woollen cloths, flannels, chemical products, rape-oil, and leather ; great numbers of oxen and swine are fattened on grains and pressed rapeseed. Sag a thriving manufacturing town, prodfices large qUantities of ticking and dimity, and fire-arms, swords, bayonets, ram rods, surgical instruments, &c. ; the iron and Steel (7000 cwts.) for these last are furnished by 0 forges in the neighbourhood. Suhl stands in a district of the Thiiringerwald, entirely separated from the rest of the Prussian territory.