Philadelphia, March i, 17^4-
JUST PUBLISHED,
y MATHEW CAREY,
No. 118, Market Jlreet,
1 HE FIRST VOLU ME OF A NEW
SYSTEM OF
Modern Geography :
OR, A
Hiflorical, ana
Commercial Grammar;
Aiul state of the several
NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
CONTAINING,
!. The figures, motions, and distances of
the planets, according to the Newtonian sys
tem and the late ft observations.
2. A general view of the earth, considered
as a planet; with several ufeful geographical
definitions and problem';.
3, The grand divisions of the globe into
land and water, continents and islands.
4. T'.ic firuation and extent of empires,
kingdoms, state*, provinces and colonies.
5- Their climates, air, foil, vegetables,
productions, metals, minerals, natural curi
osities, seas, risers, bays,capes, promontories,
aud lakes.
6. The birds and beasts peculiar to each
CO»n»rv.
7. Qbfervations on tbe changes that have
been any where observed upon the face of na
ture since the mnft ear|y periods of history.
8. The history and origin of nations ; their
forms of government, religion, laws, reve
nues, taxes, naval and military strength.
9. The genius, inanneis, customs, and ha
bits of the people.
10. language, learning, arts r fciences,
manufactures, and commerce.
m. The chief c'ties, (Iruftures, ruins, and
artificial curiolities.
12. The longitude, latitude, bearings, and
diitances of principal places from Philadelphia
To which are added.
1. A OeoqrapHi cal Index, with the names
and places a)p. abetically arranged.
2. A Table of the Coins of all nations, and
their value in dollars- and cents.
3. A Chronological Table of remarkable
events, from the creation to theprefent time.
fly WILLIAM GUTHRIE, Esq.
The Astronomical Part corre&ed. by
D Rittenhousk.
To which have been added,
The 'ate Discoveries of Dr. Herschell,
other eminent Astronomers
The FIRST AMERICAN EDITION*
Corrected, Improved, and greatly Enlarged.
The fir A volume contains twenty-one Maps
and Charts, befldes two Agronomical Plates,
Viz.
t. Map of the world. 2: Chart of the world.
3. Europe. 4. AHa. 5. AtVica. 6. South-
America- -7. Cook's difcove' ies. 8i Coun
tries round the north Pole. 9. Sweden, Den
mark, and Norway. 10. Seven United Pro
vinces. x» Auft' ian, French and Dutch Ne
therlands. 12. Germany. 13. Seat of war
in France. 14. France divided into depart
ments. iS- Switzerland. 16. Italy, Sicily,
and Sardinia. 17. Spain and Portugal.
18. Tm key in Europe and Hungary. 19. Ire
land. 20 Weft-Indies. 21. Vermont. 22. Ar
millary sphere. 23. Copernican system.
With the second volume, which is now in
the press, \wll be given the following M»ps :
1, Ruflia in Europe and
2. Scotland.
3» England and Wales.
4. Poland.
5. China.
6. Hindoftar*.
j. United, States.
g. Britilh America.
q. S'ate of New-Hampshire.
,0. State of Maflfachufetts.
ji. State of Conne&icut.
,2. State of Rhode Island.
,3. State of New-York.
,4. State of New-Jersey.
State of Pennsylvania.
16. State of Delaware.
17. State of Maryland.
18. State of Virginia.
19* State of Kentucky.
20. State of North-Carolina.
21. Tenneflee Government.
22. State of South-Carolina.
23. State of Georgia.
TERMS.
t\ This work will be coraprifed in two vo
lumes.
2. Subscribers pay for the present volume on
delivery, fix dollars, and the price of bind
ing, (56 cents for boards )
3. They may receive the fucreeding volume
in twenty-four weekly numbers, at a quar
ter dollar each, or else, when finifhed, at
the fame price as the firft.
4. The fubfeription will be raised on the firft
day of June 1794, to fourteert dollars, ex
clusive of binding.
5. Should any copies remain for sale after the
completion of the work, they will be fold at
sixteen dollars, and the price of binding.
6. The names of the fubferibers will be pub
liflied as patrons of American literature,
arts, and sciences.
It it wholly unnecefifary to expatiate on the
advantage.to American readers, that this edi
tion poflefles, over every imported edition of
any fvftem of Geography extant. The addi
tion of maps of the several state , procured at
a very great expense, and from the best ma
terials that are attainable, fpenks such full
conviction on this fubjedt, that it would be
difrefpeft to the reader's understanding to
fnppofe it requisite to enter into a detail of
arguments to prove its superiority. In no
similar work have such maps, been ever intro
duced.
The emendations and additions which are
made in this work,v'e innumerable,and occur
in every page. The public are referred to
the preface for a (light (ketch of a few of
them.
The publisher takes the present oppoi tu
nity of returning his nioft sincere thanks to
those refpc&able characters who have favored
him with documents for improving the maps
of several of the ftatcs. He reqnefts a conti
nuance of their kindness; and hopes that luch
public spirited citizens, as are poflelTcd of li
miUr documents, will favor bim with their
afliftance in perfecting his undertaking.
The extraordinary encouragement with
which he has been favored, has excited
in his bread the warmed sentiments of grati
tude—sentiments which time will not efface.
He pledges himfelf to the citizens of the
United States, to spare neith r pains nor ex
pense to'-ender the present edition o! Guthrie's
Geography improved, deserving of their pa
tronage. waftf
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Likewise, JAPANNED PLATES,
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December 30, dtf
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M.Carey,No. 118,Higb-Jlreet,
The PROMPTER;
Commentary on Common Saying * and
Subjects, which are full of Common
Sense, the bejl sense in the world.
THIS little book is written in a stile altogether
novel, and is adapted to all capacities, as
well as to all cladcs of people, merchants, me
chanics and farmers. Such a reputation has this
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j Martlt4, 1794.
War Department.
January 39th 1794.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the
military invalidsof the United State&,that the
| sums to which they are entitled for fix months
of their annua] pension, from the fourth day of
September 1793, and which will become due
on the sth day of March 1794, will be paid on
the said day by the Commiffiouers of the Loans
I within the dates refpc&ively, uuderthe usual re-
gulations.
Applications of executors and adminiflrators
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pers for the space of two months.
[anuary 30.
Parry and Mufgrave,
Goldsmiths Jewellers,
No. 42,
SOUTH SECOND-STREET,
HAVE FOR SALE,
An elegant AJfortment of
SILVER & PLATED WARE,
JEWELLERY &Jine CUTLERY,
Which they will dilpole of on the most rea
sonable terms. Devices in hair, Miniatures
sett, and every thing in the gold and silver
way, done as usual.
December 24.
AVIS.
LE habitans in fortunes dc la ColonieFranpife
de St. Domingue qui' dans I'inccndic du
Cap font venus chercher un afilc dans les Etats
Unis font tnforrnes que la R6publique leur ac
cord* un paflage pour France. lis font invites
en consequence a fe presenter a cet effet d'ici a
huit jours chez les Consuls & agens de la Re
publique dans les different* Ports des Etats Unis.
A Philadelfhie, fe xo Ventos—l'an ad dc
la Republique une & indivisible.
(28 Fevrier, 1794. rreuxfiile)
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Lc Mmiftre Plcmpoteiuiare dela K
Fraiifa rfe.
JH. FAUCHET.
The editors of naufpafers in the United States are
requejled to insert the above notice in their paper. 8t
JuJl Imported,
From London, Diiblin, and Glasgow,
By MAT HEW CAREY,
No. 118, Marlet-Jlreet,
A Large and Valuable
COLLECTION OF BOOKS,
Among which are the following :
NEW Annual Regiiterfor 1792
European Magazine for the firft fix
months of 1793
Gibbons decline and Tall of the RomanEmpirfe
Memoirs of the Manchester society, 3 vo ' s *
Priestly on matter and spirit
on christianity
Disney's lite of Dr. Jortin
Kingville's ancient geography
D'Anoirs of Guy Joli
Memty,a collection of essays
Varieof Pruflia's works
Calm observer—by Mackintosh
Ruflell's ancient and modern Europe
Langhorne's Plutarch
Elegant extracts, superbly gilt
Elegant extracts of natural history
Saugnier and Briffon's voyage
Rochon's voyage to Madagascar
Townfend's travete in Spain
Taflo's Jerusalem delivered
Smellie's translation of BnfFon
Berwick's history of quadrupeds
Buffon abridged
History of birds
Philips's history of inland navigation
Hooper's rational recreations
History of France, in 3 vols.
Curiosities of literature, 3 vols.
Whitaker's defence of queen Mary
Sheridan's dictionary, 2 vols.
Dow's history of Hindoftan
Sketches of the Hindoos
Key to polite literature.
Imlay's-dfcfoription of Kentucky
Present state of Nova-Scotia
Present state of Hudson's Bay
Preston 011 masonry
Lavater on physiognomy, abridged
Zimmerman's survey
Murphy's life of Dr. Johnson
Necker on executive power
Kisses of Secundus
Gallery of portraits
Volney's ruins of empires
Vaillaint's travels, with superb engraving'
Downmah's infsmcy
Adair's history of American Indians
Benington on materialism and immareriahfm
Berchold's advice to patriotic travellers
Builder's magazine
Complete farmer
Chandon's life of V oltaire
De Non's travels
Franklin's life and works
Grower's delcription of China
Murphy's translation of Tacitus
Godxrin on political justice
Gazetteer of France, 3 vols.
Helvetius on man
Kaimes's lketches of the history of man
Liberal opinion?, or the history of Benignus
Mawe's gardener's dictionary
Noble's memoirs of the Cromwell family
Playhouse dictionary
Reveries of solitude
Smith's theory of moral sentiments
Stackhoufe's history of the bible
Watson's life of Philip I Id. &: Illd.
Wonders of nature and art, 6 vols.
Wanley's wonders of the little world, called
man
Wallieon the prevention ofdifeafes
Moore's journal in France
Cox's travels into Denmark,Rulfia,Poland,&c.
• Cox's travels into Switzerland
, Rabant's history of the French revolution
Life of Lord Chatham
Mallet's northern antiquities
Motherby's medical dictionary
Grigg's advic* to females
Hamilton's outlines of the practice of mid-
wifery
Manning's practice of physic
Cleghorn's diseases oft Minorca
Innes on the mufcks
Pottos works
Fourcroy's chemistry
Armstrong on diseases of children
Quincy's d fpenfatory
Edinburgh dispensatory
Lewis's dispensatory
Ryan on the asthma
Robertfon's treatise on fevers
Lee's botany,
Leake on the viscera
Leake on diseases of women
Nicholfon's chemistry
Gardiner on the animal economy
Lewis's Materia Medica
Fordyce on digestion
Withering on the fox glove
Lind on the diseases of heat
Monro on diseases of armies
Haller's physiology
Spalanzane's dissertations
London practice of physic
Bell's surgery
Chaptal's chemistry.
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By MATHF.W CAREY, No. 118,
Market-Street,
An Eflay on Slavery:
Designed to exhibit in a new point of view,
its effe&s on morals, indujlry, and the peace of
ocicty. Some fa&s and calculations are offered
to prove the labor of freemen to be much more
produflive than that ot flares ; that countries are
rich, powerful and happy, in propottion as the
laboring people enjoy the fruits of their own
labor; and hence the Dfctfily conclusion, that
slavery is impolitic as well as unjufi.
dtf
publtque
February 15.
And now opening for sale,
FOR SALE,
Pric* a$ Cents.
JAMES LEACH,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends anci
the public, That from the encouragement
he has received, from feverai refpeftable Gentle
men, he is induced once more, to embark in ihr*
PAPER LINE —and would offer his fetvicea t«>
all those Gentlemen, who can place confidence
in him ; and he assures those who employ him,
that their confidence (hall not be misplaced;—
but it shall be his conUant endeavor, to pay the
ftri&eft attention to their best interest, in aline
gociations whatever. He hiS taken the Chamber,
in State-Street, over Mr. David Town/end, Watch
Maker's Shop.— —Where PUBLIC SECURI
TIES, of all kinds, are bought and fold ; and
where Commiflion Bufiuefs of all kinds, will he
tranfa&ed on reasonable terms. HOUSES and
VESSELS will be constantly exposed for sale, on
comrnillion.
* # * Cash paid for Salem, Providence, and
Portsmouth BILLS.
N. B. If any Gentleman in Philadelphia, or
New-York, has any Bujinefs to tranjafl at Boflon,
in Paper Negotiations, he will be huppy to be em
ployed on commijfion.
Boston, Jan. 24, 1794.
Fifty Dollars Reward;
ON the 31ft of last month, the fubfcribrr ad
drfifed a letter to MiflVs. Thomas Pearjall
££ Son, merchants in New-York, and irtclofed
therein a bank note, No. 445, for, twenty dbUr
lars ; one ditto, No. 151, lor thirty dollars 9
and one ditto, No. 3,866, for twenty dollars.
—He also add re (Ted a letter to Mr. Gilbert
Saltonjiall, merchant in New-York, inclosing »
bank bill, No. 148, for fifty dollars, indoifed
on the back thereof in theft words—"Pa) the
within to Mr. Gilbert Saltonjiall——Eben. Hunting
ton.''—He also addressed a letter to Messrs. Whiti
& Wardell, merchants in New-York, and inclo-'
fed a bank bill for ten dollars, and a draft in fa
vor of said White & Wardell, which letters were
put in the Poll-Office on said 31ft January, to
be forwarded to New-York : But by letters re*
ceived from the Gentlemen to whom they were
severally addressed, the money was robbed
from each letter before delivery.
The Public are requested to endeavor a de*
teftion of the Vlllains who committed the above
jobbery. The bill indorsed, I think was a York,
bank bill, and some others, one or more waft
of the United States bank, remitted at Philadel
phia. Any person discovering the Thief, and
returning the Money, ftiall be entitled to fift/
dollars reward.
EBEN. HUNTINGTON.
Norwich, 14th Feb. 1794. 3w3taw
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Feb. 28,
Daily's Hotel.
GIFFORD DALLY,
Formerly Keeper of the City Tavern, and
of the Merchant's Coffee-Houfe of this
City :—
RB.SPECTFUI.LY informs his Friends and
the Public in general, that he has THIS
DAY opened a HOTEL in Shippen-Strect, be
tween Third and Fourth-Streets, at the House
formerly occupied by Mr. Timmons, which
has lately been greatly improved, and is now
very commodious ; where he hasturmfhed him*,
fell with ihe beQ of LIQUORS, and will fur.
ni(h a TABLE for Parties, with the bed provi
sions the Markets afford, at any hour, on the
(horteft notice. From his long experience in
this line of business, he flatters himfelf he (halt
be able to give fat<sfa£tion to all who may plea(e
to favor him with their company.^
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