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Atlantic and sea, union of, 40

Albany and Caffer Land, 129, 138, 154

Abstracting electricity from the clouds, 184

Atheism, &c. picture of, 3, 10

Absence of mind in Adam Smith, 10
A near observer, 46, 69, 93, 109

Antediluvian remains, 121

American colony at Liberia, &c. 191

American Star, article respecting Elias Hicks, 204
Allen, William, his "Colonies at Home," 377, 385
African cascade, Orange river, 11
Alpine horn, custom in the Alps, 55
Ancient Jewish medal, 97

Albigenses, historical sketch of, 105
Agricultural enterprise, 106
African lion, anecdotes of, 108
Antiquarian notes, by Book-worm, 137
Ancient Books, 173, 177

African Observer, its suspension, 195
Artillery, projects respecting, &c. 316
Abo and Shevilin, fires there, 40
Atoms, minuteness of, 123
Aurora Borealis, 48

Argument of John Wurts, &c. 300
Asylum, Friends', annual meeting, 176

Annual report of, &c. 195
Account of its origin and discus-
sion respecting, 351, 357

Album, contribution to an, 247
Alphabet, invention of the Cherokee, 381
Animals, Cuvier on domestication of, 285
Ackworth School and Dr. Fothergill, 130
Aurora Borealis of Greenland, 296
Africa, H. Kilham's visit to, 6

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Further respecting, and Cherokee Phoenix, 99 Examination of certificate, S. Noble, &c. 278
Picture of, by a native, 210

Climate of Pennsylvania, 202

Columbus, voyage of, publication of, 16
extracts from, 42

Connecticut, early provision of schools there, 16
Co-operative industry, 49
Cotton, injurious use of, 56
Concentric spheres of Capt. Symmes, &c. 61
Coal trade of Schuylkill, &c. 72, 80, 96, 104
Collins, Micajah, obituary of, 160
Convictions in England and France, 232
Corrector on contradictions of seceders, 240
Contribution to an Album, &c. 247
Cook, John, memoir of, 272
Confession of unbelief, 308

Choctaw academy, letter respecting, 381
Connexion of the brain with the mind, &c. 35
Cultivation of the grape, &c. 192

Cuvier on domestication of animals, 285
Curious ancient manuscript, 396

Correspondents, notices to, 8, 22, 54, 71, 96, 120,
168, 192

"Colonies at Home," Wm. Allen's, 377, 385
Cascade on the Orange river, 11
Cherokee Alphabet, invention of the, 381
Choctaw academy, letter respecting, 381
Christ's Advent, Indian illustration of, 193
Conrad, S. W. lectures by, noticed, 203
Christians, persection of the early, 342
Christianity in the South Sea Islands, 265
C. C. Colton, extracts from, 45, 46, 47, 55, 336
Cowper,
92, 144, 166, 219, 232, 316
277

Addison, extracts from, 56, 148, 221, 229, 232, 258 Chesterfield,
Adventurer,

do 98

African Travellers, the, 378

Bates, Elisha, and the Berean, 117, 127, 133, 149,
189, 197, 206, 214, 237, 246, 260, 363, 373, 382,
405, 411

Brandy, whiskey, &c. ironical, 147
Bleeding at the nose, treatment of, 16
Benevolent eccentricity, 79

Bees, account of, 281

Binney, Horace, eulogium on Judge Tilghman, 25,
33, 41

His legal opinion on asylum, 196
British Bible Society report, &c. 122, 161, 172
Blind persons, successful treatment of, 183
Brotherhood of mercy, 147, 155

Bos, Martin, interesting account of, 267
Book of Job, E. Davids on, 403
Burial ground, forcible entry of, &c. 5
Butler's Reminiscences, extracts from, 19

Notices of Edmund Burke from, 20
Bruce, Michael, the Scottish Poet, 229
Burial case of Mary D. Richards, 371
Byberry, sketch of its history, &c. 68, 74
Burke, Ed. extracts from, 22

Burns, extract from, 64, 139

Blair's Grave, extracts from, 115, 224
Baillie, Joanna,

Beaver, 90

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Dr. Darwin, criticism on, &c. 15
Deception, optical, 102

Deaf and dumb, examination of, 192
Death by excessive joy, 200

Declaration of faith in 1689 by Friends, 231
Deep river Qu, meeting relative to E. Hicks, 256
Detraction Displayed, by A. Opie, 379, 386, 393, 402
Divinity of Christ, proofs of, by Phipps, 103
Drinker, Edward, account of, 104
Diving bell, descent in, 235
Disownments of separatists discussed, 404
Dog mill for sawing, 183

Doctrines of Elias Hicks, 299
Duelling, indications respecting, 24
Deaths, Martha Powell, Hannah Elton, 16; Jeremiah
Parker, Rebecca George, Daniel Smith, 24; Tho-
mas Duncan, Sarah Longstreth, 48; Thomas Car-
penter Wharton, 56; Elizabeth Rotch, Hannah D.
Newbold, Tylee Williams, Elizabeth Williams,
Susanna Nancreed, Thomas L. Norris, Mary B.
Barns, 140; Cheyney Jefferis, Mary D. Smith, Dr.
Samuel Emlen, 216; Patterson Hartshorne, Jolin
Morton, 224; John Warder, Mary Paul, 240; John
Hoskins, 248; John Cook, 263; Simon Meredith,
276; William Stapler, 280; Lydia Lippincot, 328;
William Brown, 336; William Newbold, 360; Jo-
nathan, Thomas, and Owen Lindley, 364; Robert
Pearsall, 392

Disbelief, effects of, 28
Deism, fall of, &c. 76
Dillwyn, short extracts from, 29, 40, 77, 93, 100,
116, 119, 123, 203, 219, 223, 232, 236, 292, 316,
332, 356, 368, 372, 384, 403
Duchée, T., extract from, 32
Despondency, on giving way to, 211
Death of a Father, on the, 188

Extraordinary preservation at sea, 13
Extract from letter of a traveller, 48

Essays of Melancthon, notice, &c. 192

Extracts from writings of primitive Friends, &c.
237

Effects of disbelief, &c. 28

Elders of Philadelphia and E. Hicks, 77, 95, 135,
157, 174, 182

English classic, 82, 91, 99, 106, 113, 139, 186, 202,

219, 243, 259, 297, 255

Epistle from yearly meeting Virginia, 261
Elton, Hannah, tribute to, 24

Elwood, Thomas, his epistle, &c. 117, 126, 133
Exposition, &c. by T. Evans, notice of, 124

Economy of insects, 323

Eloquent passages from Le Bas, 362
Egyptian history, &c. 57, 65

Exclusion of Friends from meeting houses, &c. 15,

21, 28, 47, 61, 78, 143

Education, happy results of, to the indigent, &c. 172
Egyptian mummy contemporary with Moses, 186
Editorial Remarks-On the Prospectus, 5; relative
to removal to free governments of slaves; notice
of error respecting Abington, 29; address to sub-
scribers, 39; notice of North Carolina yearly
meeting, 45; remarks on exclusion from meeting
houses, 64; relative to article "Pelican Island,'
80; on Elias Hicks' letter to H. Frink, 120; notice
of reprinting deficient numbers, 144; of Hicksite
epistle to Ohio, 160; respecting Asylum, correc-
tions, 200; notice relative to yearly meeting of
Pennsylvania, 224; close of ditto, and notice of
Littell's religious magazine, 232; notice respect-
ing yearly meeting declaration, 236; address to
subscribers, 256; notice relative to Virginia and
New York yearly meeting, 264; notice of forcible
entry by Shotwell and others, 272; remarks on
the same, and proceedings before Judge King,
280; respecting the same, 288; examination of
Judge King's opinion, 295; notice of yearly meet-
ing on Rhode Island, 296; in relation to argument
of J. Wurts, 304; succinct view of burying-ground
question, 312; extract from Miscel. Repository,
with remarks, 320; embarkation of E. Robson;
receipt of New York declaration, 328; notice of
yearly meeting of London, 336; observations rela-
tive to separation-relative to A. Peisley and E.
Dawson in Ohio, 334; to correspondents, 352; se-
paration in New York and Ohio, 356; notice of
error respecting Haddonfield-extract from letter
dated Columbiana-intrusion of A. Peisley and E.
Dawson, 363; reflections on seceders' review of
yearly meeting declaration, 376; memorial of
Friends in London to parliament-account of G.
M. Horton, 384; correction of error relative to Mt.
Pleasant, 399; respecting charge of false state-
ments in "The Friend;"-close of Ohio yearly
meeting, 408; address to subscribers, 416

Franckfort fairs, account of, 26
Fall of deism, &c. 76
Fatal effects of tobacco water, 82
Fragments, 93, 128, 150, 166, 190, 222, 239, 248,
269, 317, 341, 365

Friends, Society of, in England, 14
Fire of St. Elmo, account of, 243

Fox, George, his concern for the Negroes, 20
Foreign seeds, attention of government to, 48
Fothergill, Dr., and Ackworth School, 130
Fothergill, Samuel, extract from his Sermons, 223
Faith, declaration of, in 1689 by Friends, 231
Friends, extracts from writings of primitive, 237
Fox, George, do 403.

Grand Trunk, or Trent and Mersey Canal, 49
Gratitude for signal benefits called for, 120

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Inquisition, the Spirit of the, 353, 361, 369
Johnson, Dr. extracts from, 98, 375, 416
Jew, the converted, 89

Indiana yearly meeting, testimony of, 111
Indian Chief, 185, 193, 201

Kakabikka, falls of, described, 26
Kilham, Hannah, her visit to Africa, 6
Knowles, Mary, and Dr. Johnson, 163
Knox's essays, 9, 229, 232
Kempis, Thomas á, 148

Lackawana coal mines, 72
Last hours of Dr. Johnson, 191

Lake Superior, paragraphs respecting, 280
Lewis XIV. extracts respecting, 113
"Let me write their songs," &c. 156
Ledyard, John, sketch of, &c. 165, 169
Lectures by S. W. Conrad, noticed, 203
Lewis Abner, his statements examined, 254
Library, royal, at Paris, 32

Liverwort, properties of, 120
Lime, its use in raising peas, 231

List of correspondents, Y. meeting of Phila. 340
Locke on reading, 19

Longevity from Dr. A. Clarke, 90

Heber's Indian Journal, extracts from, 233, 241, Lloyd, Charles, notice of his death, 192

249

Highway Robbery, daring, 32

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, notice of, 187
Hicks, Elias, and the Society of Friends, 252; ex-
tract of letter respecting his sermon at Purchase,
with remarks, 279; review of his Sermons, 285;
essay on Sermon at Purchase, and extracts from
his other Sermons, 341; examination of his Letter
relative to Purchase Sermon, 388, 396
Honourable conduct, 16

Honesty and generosity in a lad, 32
Horticulture, article respecting, 40
Holy Scripture, authority of, 78

Horticultural varieties, 178

Homer, manners, &c. of the age of, 220, 225, 236
Huntington, Susan, letter of, 277

Humboldt, his journey to Siberia, 288

Hicks, Elias, article from the American Star, 204
doctrines of, 299

and Elders of Philadelphia, 77, 95,
135, 157, 174, 182

on doctrines of, by Luther, 38, 51, 88,
94, 350, 397

letter to Frink, strictures on, by Lu-
ther, 118

on Scripture.

Locusts in South America, 288
London yearly meeting, some account of, 328
further account of, 336

Luther on doctrines of E. Hicks, 38, 51, 88, 94, 350,
397; commented on by N. S. 101; his strictures on
E. Hicks' letter to Frink, 118; his essay "Hicks
on Scripture," 365; his examination of Hicksite
Epistle to Ohio, &c. 167, 175, 181
Liberia, American colony at, 191
Lion, African, 108

Langhorne, extracts from, 216, 268

Magellan, straits of, interesting respecting, 26
Majorities, question discussed as relates to Friends,
86; Ditto, by Philo Factorum, 618
Massillon, extract from, on Lewis XV. 324
Maternal intrepidity, 392

Negro slavery, strictures on, &c. 84
S. W. Scott's decision on, &c. 159
New York canal revenue, 119
New doctrines, strictures on, 126
New York Y. meeting, account of proceedings at,
263; communication respecting, by, H. R. L. 290
T. M'Clintock's account of, examined, 311; ex-
tracts from the minutes of, 279; communication
relative to, by Corrector, 367
New England yearly meeting, notice of, 296
Epistle of, to its members, 326
Newton meeting, settlement of, 383
Notices of Justin Martyr, 85
North Carolina yearly meeting epistle, &c. 86
North Carolina, gold mines of, 91

Melancthon on the points of difference between
followers of E. Hicks and Friends, 199, 215, 230,
246, 260, 317, 333, 358, 374
Meers, Nicholas, short account of, 16
Milton, prose of, 52, 83

Military talent contrasted, &c. 64
Mission to Madura, 154, 161, 169
Milton and Galileo, 315
Mousing rat, 15

Hicksite Epistle to Ohio, &c. examination of, by Monrovia, some account of, 24

Luther, 167, 175, 181

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Infant school, Chester-street, 4, 45

Jacobin, misapplication of the term, 28

Jail without prisoners, 200

Jackson, Halliday, his false statements exposed, 413
Jerusalem, sketch of, by Chateaubriand, 145
Ice, relative to, and the season, 178
Ireland, state of, by J. J. Gurney and E. Fry, 322,
330, 338, 346

Indiana yearly meeting epistle, with remarks, 29
Abstract of minutes from, 45
Certificate of Dr. Wood and T.
French relating to, 208
Idria and the quicksilver mines, 59, 66, 73
Infidels, credulity of, 180

Indians, number of four large tribes, ib.
Indian illustration of Christ's Advent, 193
India, progress of Christianity there, 249

Reminiscences of a voyage to, 401
Iron, singular fact respecting, 152
Innocent cheerfulness, &c. illustrated, 166
Jordan, Richard, memoir of, 212
Judicial decision relative to slaves, &c. 3
Juror, interesting decision respecting, 55
Judge King, his opinion, case of Shotwell, &c. 293
Remarks on by Kinsey, 292, 309

Joy, death by excessive, 200
Indian, example of pathetic in an, 90
Johnson, Dr. last hours of, 191

Mosaic history, authenticity of, 44
Modern Greece, 138

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North pole, Parry's attempt to reach, 262, 265, 282
Noble, S. and others certificate, examined, 278
Natural History, Remarkable fact, 104
Newton's letters, extracts from, 152
Near Observer, 46, 69, 93, 109

Operations of nature in effecting a cure, 128
Oberlin, J. F. memoir of, 209, 217

Ohio and Indiana yearly meeting, editorial notice
of, &c. 22

Ohio Y. meeting, misrepresentation respecting, of
the Berean, examined, 116; address of its
meeting for sufferings, 271; occurrences
at the opening of, 1828, 390; further ac-
count of, &c. by A. N. 406

Murray, Lindley, extract from, 11
Mysteries of godliness, 287, 296
Marriages. Thomas C. Garret to Frances Biddle,
16; Isaac Lloyd, Jr. to Hannah S. Bolton, 24;
Reynell Coates, M. D. to Margaretta Abbot, 64;
Thomas Scattergood to Rebecca Hillman, Ed-
ward Yarnall to Caroline R. Cope, 176; William
Biddle to Elizabeth Garret, William Maule to
Mary Randolph, 240; Isaac S. Mulford to Rachel
W. Mickle, 248; Marmaduke C. Cope to Sarah
Wistar, 272; Joseph P. Smith to Mary Emlen
Cresson, 280; George M. Stroud to Eleanor Hal-
lowell, 344

Medal, Ancient Jewish, 97

Mind, connexion of the Brain with, 35
Manuscript, curious ancient, 396
Melancthon, 156

notice of his essays, 192
Madura, Mission to, 154, 161, 169
Martyr, Justin, notices of, 85
Moon, pretended discoveries in the, 211
Milton, extract from, 128
Mackenzie, extract from, 183
Moore's, H. letters, do
Mavor, extract from, 396
Moor, the unfortunate, 184, 286
Mirage in Egypt, the, 68

218, 224

Navarino, destruction of, 136
Natural history, study of, 203
New Jersey respecting canals, &c. 24
Newspaper paragraphs, 72

Obstinate spirit of litigation, 152
Obituary notice of John Warder, 256
Anna Willis, 408
Orthography, or curious spelling, 128
Obituary notice of Micajah Collins, 160
Optical deception, 102

Opie, A. extracts from, 64, 78

Parry, Capt. his return from polar voyage, 24
Palestine, 35, 44, 81, 89

Palm, species on the Mobile, 231
Paris, state of the weather in, 360
Prairie marmot, account of, 403
"Preaching of the Peace," 18
Pennsylvania, early history of, 7, 12, 53
Penn, William, "Salutation," &c. of, 47, 54

His account of name given to his prov. 356
"Pelican Island," &c. reviewed, 63; critical re-
marks on the review, 79

Perot, John, his defection analogous to E. Hicks',
&c. 110, 125

President's message, remarks relating to, 120
Pennington, Isaac, his character by Penn, &c, 333
Persecution of the early Christians, 342
Phipps, I. cursory observations by, on Catholicus,

&c. 2

Philotheus, on loving enemies, &c. 22
Primitive Quakers, consistency of, &c. 37
Printing office destroyed by fire, 48
Prince William Henry, anecdote of, &c. 124
Prospectus of "The Friend," 1
Poor system of Philadelphia, 20
Poems of Adrian, proposals respecting, 124
Poisoned wounds, 130
Physic, excessive use of, 40
Poetry, selected, Retirement,-Ocean 4; On the
death of -, Celestial Roses, 16; Heaven, 39; Christ
stilling the tempest, 40; The Dead Soldier,―The
Alps, a reverie, 43; Messiah's Advent,-Stanzas,
51; Be thou my strong rock, &c. 55; Hymn, I
prais'd the earth, &c.-Grief for departed Friends
-Epitaph on a young Greek, 60; Hymn-Lines
on Mat. c. 8, v. 24, &c. 70;-Stanzas, 78; Hymn
-Psalm xix. 96; Niagara, from the Spanish, 98;
Si Christine, &c. paraphrased, 100; Stanzas from
Rural Visitor, 108; Pastoral hymn, 119; Morning
hymn, 123.-The mother, &c.-To a wren in
winter,-To a wife during illness, 124; My infant
son-Personification of Envy, &c. 152; On prayer,
139; "The very hairs of your head are all num-
bered," 146; Eulogium on rum, 148; Lines from
the Talisman, 152; Lines written in a Highland
valley, 163; Memorial of Mary Dyer, 168; "The
yellow violet," 170; Lines on seeing a clear
spring, &c. 172; Stanzas,-What do the futures
speak of? 173; What think ye of Christ? Mat. xxii.
42, 183; The farewell of winter, 184; Evening walk
in Bengal, 187; The retrospect, 200; The Omnipre-

sent, 203; Gems from the antique, 194, 224, 266;
The landscape, 226; Secret devotion, 229; Tintern
Abbey, 244; May, 259; Spring, 266; View of Athens
by the light of a waning moon, 283; Hymn to the
north star, 284; Palestine, 307; Stanzas on change
from gay to religious life, 312; Passage of the Red
Sea, 316; On the approach of spring, 328; to the
memory of Elizabeth Smith, 332; The lapse of
time, 340; To melancholy, by an insane patient,
348; The daisy, 352; Evening hymns, 368;
Whence comes truth? 381.

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Savery, William, expressions of, at a meeting in
London, 19; extract of letter from him, &c. 38
Savonarole, the Italian reformer, 59, 67, 73, 81
Scraps from my Port Folio, 164, 171
Scraps, 354

Scraps by V. 395, 402, 410

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Thomson, Charles, remark of, on the Scriptures, 230
Tower of Babel, ruins of, &c. 284
Tockoa and Tallulah falls, 306

Sandwich Islands, sketch of, 305, 313, 321, 329, 337, Toads-benefits from, 356

345

Stewart, Dugald, extract from, 27

Poetry, Original. Parted friends, Stanzas written
at sea, Hope, the anchor, 13; The gathering
round the oak tree, Ode on landing of William
Penn, 23; Stanzas, Harvest hymn, 31; Lines on
my birthday, 39; Lines by Marian, 48; Sacred
ode, 75; To the ocean, 80; The Alpine horn, 84;
Scraps from my Port Folio, 92, 178; To my infant St. Petersburgh, singular occurrence there, 32
child, 111; Woman, 131; The Nativity, 188; In-Steamboats, rivalry of, in England, 40
comprehensibility of Jehovah, 201; To the memo- Searching into divine mysteries, 100
ry of M. M. 210; Happiness, 255; Address to the Snelson, Nathaniel, the bank robber, taken, 132
oak described by Heber, 256; On 1 Kings xix. Shelter for coloured orphans, account of, 194
11, 12, 13, 259; Lake scene, &c. 296; On a hum- Sheep and wool, article on, 224
ming bird, &c. 332; On viewing the starry hea- Seiks, some account of, 226
vens, Youth's fond hope, 410

Porcupine, account of the Canada, 383
Pennsylvania, climate of, 202

Penn Monument, 104

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Turks-curious fact respecting, at Athens, 7
Tyson, Elisha-memoir of, 348

Tilghman, Judge, eulogium on, by Horace Binney,
25, 33, 41

Tobacco water, fatal effects of, 82

Taylor, Jane, extracts from, 163, 164, 165, 176
Tatler, extract from, 99
Tillotson, do 372

Separation in the west, 269, 319, 325, 335, 340, 360 | Underhill, Solomon, memoir of, 134, 141, 149
Seals, the Greenlander's flocks, 296

Separation in New York, 310, 386, 399, 412
Separatists, their proceedings at Salem and Had-
donfield, 343

Parry's, Capt. attempt to reach the North Pole, 262, | Separatists' yearly meeting, article on, 216
265, 282

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Schism in the Society of Friends, remarks on, 54, 277
Science useful but not essential to religion, 90
Smith, Frederick, conversion from infidelity relat-
ed by, 221

Silk worm, instructions respecting, 227
Simpson, James, circumstance related by him, 231
Spirit of the inquisition, 353, 361, 369
Stockton and Darlington railway, 4
Scott's Napoleon, French opinion of, 50
Stroud on slavery laws, remarks on, 75
Society of Friends, on the difficulties in, 101
Sound, conveyance of, 178

South Sea Islands, Christianity there, 265
Substitute for covering roofs, 32

Schools, early provision for, in Connecticut, 16
Symmes, concentric spheres, &c. 61

Review of "Exposition, &c. by T. Evans," 136, 141, Schuylkill, coal trade of, &c. 72, 80, 96, 104
151, 158

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Seceders, on contradictions of, by Corrector, 240
Slaves, judicial decision relative to, 3
Sidney, Sir Philip, Aphorisms, 32, 40, 45, 77, 81
Seed, extracts from, 51, 255, 258, 323
Smith, Elizabeth, extracts from, 90, 92, 98
Smith, S. J. extracts from, 57

explanatory note respecting, 142
Union canal, its progress, 71
Unbelief, confession of, 308

Varieties, 370

Voltaire and Claude Gay, 11
Virginia, yearly meeting, Epistle from, 261
Waldenses-sketch of their history, 153, 179
What befel for want of a latch, 176
What is Christianity? 395

Williams, William, observations by him, 231
White Water Qr. meeting, moderation of Hicksites
there, 392

Windmill Island, decision respecting, 120

Wordsworth, on his poetry, with specimen, 244
Wurts J. argument of, &c. 300

Warder, John, Obituary Notice of, 256

Willis, Anna,

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408
Woolman, John, extracts from, 22, 236, 256, 411
Walsh's Review, extract from, 51
Watts'
219

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Young, Edward, critique on, by Campbell, 245
remarks on the critique, 268
Yearly meeting of Philada., list of correspondents
of, 340
Young, extracts from, 64, 93, 203, 224

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