of tije Wnim EVE [No. i 7 of Vol. V.] NEW BOOKS. Now opening for Sale, CARE M. By No. MARKET-STREET; A large and valuable collection ofBOOKS, imported From London in the Mohawk. Dec. 19. N O R R I S-COU RT, B»ck of the New L-bra- v, betwetn Ifcefnct and Walnut-Street'; George Rutter, RESPECTFULLY informs his frfcmds and tlie public in general, that he continues carrying on the btu£ne f s of Sign and Fire-Bucket Painting, Likewise, JAPANNED PLATES, for doarsor window-Ih utter*, done in the 1110 ft elegant manner, and with dilpatch. Orders from the oontry will be thankfully Teceiveii, and duly attended to. Decei nbgr 3 >, Parry and Mufgrave, Ga ldfmltbs Ssf Jewellers, No. 42, SOUTH SECOND-STREET, HAVE FOR SALE, An th'ant AJJbrtmmi of SILVE R bf PLATED WARE, JEW!- .LLERY y fnt CUTLERY, Which they will difpofic of on the most rea sonable C eiras. Devices in hair, Miniatures sett, am I erery thing in the gold and fiiver way, doc e as ufaal Deccr nber 24. Rohert Campbell, No. 54, South Sxond-jireety Second) loor b- low the corner of Cliefnut- street, HAS IMPORTED, By the !late arrivals from Britain and Ireland, A' large and general AJJbrlment of New Books an J Stationary, Which will be disposed of 00 the lowed terms. Dec. 23. mw&fif NOW IN THE PRESS, j hid tctll fptedily be fubU/lied, THE Un/ited States Register, For the Year 1794; Cot itaining, besides accurate and complete lift-? C f all the Officers in tlie genera l , and the pri«C ipal Officers in the particular govern ment a variety of information, ufefnl for all clafl es. E. Oswald, No. 156, Mirket-Street, Suuth, a T tlie request of a number of friends, ± .k. proposes publilhing The Independent Cj zettkh, twice a week, viz. Wednefdavs and Saturday":—to commence in January next, if fufficient encoeragement offers. It will be publiOird on Paper and Types equal to its present appeal ante. The lub fcription 3J dollars per ann. Advertisements not exceeding a fqnare, , ill be lulerted 4 times for 1 dollar—every continuance one fifth of a dollar. Those ex f eeding a square, in the fame proportion. NOTICE IS hereby given, to the Members of the Insurance Company of North-America, That the third Instalment, being Two Dollars on each share of the Stock, is to be paid, a greeablv to the Conftitntion, on the second Monday [the 13th day] of January next: And a Central Meeting of the Stockholders is to be on the succeeding day, ior the purpose of chooflng Fifteen Direflors % examining into the Situation of the Company's Affairs, and ma. king such additional Rules and Regulations as they (hall jndee necessary. EBENEZER HAZARD, Sccratary. Dec. 16. mw&f t3- ij MONEY borrowed or loaned, accounts Ra ted or colle&ed, employers (uited with flotnefties, bouse u>oms, boarding and lodging neotrd, let or procured—soldier's, mariner's, or militia men's pay, lands and claims on the ]*iblic ; (hires in the banks, in thecanali, and the turnpike road : certificates granted by the public, and the -old and late paper monies ; •totes of hand, bills, bonds and morgages, with •»r without deposits—Bought, fold, or cego •:iated at No. 8, m south Sixth-ftrect, below Market-street bv FRANCIS V. HI TE, Wbotranfa£U bufmefs in tha public offiecs for t vuntrv peop-e and others, by v irtue of a pow (tr of iiimnfT, or by personal application. December I s. NING ADVERTISE Wednesday, January 1, 1 7*94 Mr. Peals. deems it a duty to informthe kind promoters of his Museum, that he hits re ceived from foreign countries very flatter ing encouragementfor the propcfils hi had made of reciprocal exchange of naturalfuL- Jt3s. And that his Museum wJI thus he gradually Jlored with precious Ex odes, Y, while it retains a fvfficient number (f na tive specimens. With this view he intends, from time tc time, to publish cxbacls of his foreign correfpondcnce of -which the folio-w ---ing is a part. Philadelphia June %d* The Swed'fh Academy of sciences at Stock holm has desired me to present grateful ac knowledgements for the Birds you fer.t, and to declare a ready acceptance of yovr proptfal for a reciprocal exchange of thefe y anil other fubjeds of natural hrjiory. Mr. Guflavus Von Car If on ( P refdent of one of the Supreme Courts- of Juflice) has charged himfelf with the exchange of Birds, This eminent orni thologifl owns a precious cabinet of Birds, containing more than 800 fpeaes ; and has by teflamer.tary d'fpofitiongeneroufly bequeath- \ ed the whole to the said Academy of sciences. Tou will therefore be pleafedtG fend in future the birds dire Sly to him. He has already in return forwardedfeveral of the mofl valu able Swedish Birds, such as the Urogallus major, and Urogallus minor, the Lago pus, &c. The firjl is in fi%e equal to a Tur keyj and in flavour, though different, not in ferior. With the bef. wishes for your perso nal pr fperity, the academy takes a lively inte refl in the success of your Museum, perfmded that Natural Hjfiory will derive great im provement from yrfur r,eal and ingenuity. I continue with refpeS, Sir, Tour friend and humble servant, Nicholas Collin. mwSrftf Mr. C. IV. Peak TO THE PUBLIC. THE undernamed committee, appoin'cd by " THF SOCIETY for the INSTITU TION 7 and SUPPORT of FIRST-DAY or SUNDAY SCHOOLS in the city of Philadel phia and the diftrid of Southwaik ar.d the Noithern Liberties," to solicit further fubferip. tions for the support of the schools which the fatd society have eftablifbed, take the liberty to represent to their fellow citizens— Thai, although the school* were fufpendM during the period of the late awftjl calam-ty with which our city and suburbs have been af fl ded. thry are now again opened for she free admifCun and education of ooor children. That, the neccflity and reafona for the eflab liflimen' of these schools arc increafcd, frOm the ctrcumftance of the late diftrrfs having left a number of Orphans deilitute of all the means of education, save what the hand of benevolence mav administer. Thar, former experience has, most pleafinply, verified the fondrft hopes ot the friends of this institution, with regaid to the p'ogre f s arul ad vancement of the children, who have heretofore bern under its care, in the ufeful branches of education which it has afforded. Referring to this fa€t, and to the address to the public, on this fubje&, publiftied in the newfpaoers of this city »n the third month last, when about eight hundred and twenty children of both sexes had partaken of the benefits afforded bv the society, and about thrre hundred and twenty more were th-n a&ually receiving inftru&ion in their schools, it now only retrains to be observed, that the funds of the focirty are greatly ineffi cient to carry on their brnevolent defipm, and that the committee formerly appointed to folicti fubferiptions, conceived it necefTary to decline their anpltcations to their fellow-citirens for their afliftance in favor of these schools, in order that theie might be no intenuption from th-m to the solicitations then made in behalf of their unfortunate brethren from Cape-Fraocois. The public aid is now therefore eamcfUv f«>- licited to support a charitable eflabliihment, cal culated upon the principles of public and pri vate pood. The annual fubferipuon for a mem ber is but One Dollar; and it is presumed that so fmali a sum per annum cannot be better dis posed of, by those who can afford it, than by bestowing it as the price of the diffufion of ufelu! knowledge among the poor and friendletk Subfctiptipiu and donations will be gratefully received by the undernamed committee on be half of the society : Peter Thompson, Thomas P. Cope, Joseph Price, Edward Pole, jamcs Hardie, William Innis, Benjamin Sav, Nathaniel Falconer, Francis Bailey, leffe Sharplefs, Samuel Scot ten, Peter Barker. AND THE following observations have been submitted to the infpeciion of the first Characters in the United States—and have receined their approbation, as con taining the belt information relative to the important objects to which they refer— as filch, they have been handed to the public in the form of a pamphlet—for the purpose of a more general circulation, vdu are requested to publish them in the Ga zette of the United States. OBSERVATIONS RIVER POTOMACK, The Country Adjacent, and the CITY OF WASHINGTON. THE permanent feat of government of the United States, having been fixed cn the river Potomach, by a solemn aS of the go virnment —This river, the country about it, and particularly the spot chosen for the feat of government, become objeds of interefling enquiry, both at home and abroad.—This confederation has drawn the fallowing ob servations from a person who, to a general knowledge of the Potomack and its dependen cies, adds the advantage of having been long in a Jituation, where he has had an opportu nity of obtaining the befl informatiou on the points mentioned in the following Jbeets. THE river Potomack forms a jundhon with the bay of Chefapeak, one hundred and fifty miles from the sea. From thence to the head of tide-water is about one hundred and sixty miles. •' This river is seven and an half miles »'ide at its mouth ; four and an half at Momony Bay ; three at Aquier; one and an half at Hollowing-Point; one and a quarter at Alexandria ; and the fame from thence to the city of Walhmgton, which is within three miles of the head of tide water.—lts foundings are seven fathoms at the mouth ; five at St. George's Island; four and an half at Lower Matchodic ; three at Servan's Point, and the fame from thenee to the city." [Mr. Jefferfon'' Note 6 on Virginia.] From the Capts of the Chefapeak to the city of Washington, is upwards of three hundred miles; but the navigation is easy and perfectly fafe.— * A veflel of twelve hundred hogsheads of tobacco has loaded at and failed from Alexandria, and one of seven hundred hogsheads at George- Town, which is above the city. At the city the water rises four feet in a common tide. From the city of Walhington to Cum berland, a flourirtiing town at the head of the river, is about two hundred and thirty miles as the river runs. Early in life General Washington con templated the opening of this river, from tide-water to its source, so as to make it navigable for such veflels as were suitable for carrying the produce of the country to the (hipping ports below. His public employments in the part of the country through which the Potomack and its branches run, had given him a more com plete knowledge of this river, than almost any other man poffefled at that time ; and his mind was strongly imprefled with its future importance. But the period for undertaking a work of such magnitude had not yet arrived The country was then but sparsely inhabited.—Canals and Locks but little understood, especially in America ; and but few men of property were willing to engage in an undertaking, the cost of which they could not clearly calculate, and the profits of which were to many doubtful.—General Walhington, I however, kept the object steadily in view, Ebmctci Larpc, Jacob Cauffmanj James Todd, fnCrph Jamca, Jonathan Peniofr, George M'.ade, John Pero% John M'Crff, • Report of the committee appointed by the merchants of George-Town and Alexandria. Robert Ralfton, Thomas A»mat t Geo gc Williams Jan. l Urates Mr. Fen*o, Yours, ON THE [Whole No. 475.] waiting until time and cirrumftances {hould enable him to bring it forward, with a prof- peel of success, Tne tvar with Great Britain took place about the time when the importance of this object began to be understood, and a villingnefs to embark in it began to appear among men of property. Until the close of that war nothing, however could be attempted iti the business.—But no soon er had a happy termination of it enabled Gen. Wafl.ington to retire from his high public station, than he refumcd this object which had so long before occupied his mind. He found gentlemen cf the firft property and refpeftabiiity in the neigh borhood of the Potomack, both in Virgi nia and Maryland, ready to engage in the enterprise. Ia the year 1784 a company was formed for the purpose of removing the obftruftions, and opening the naviga tion of the river from its source down to tide water, and an ast of incorporation, pafled by the assemblies of Virgihia snd Maryland, authorizing the company to take the neceiTary measures for carrying into effect the objects for which they were incorporated—and granting to them for ever the tolls which may arile therefrom ; which tolls are fixed by the fame law that empowers the company to undertake the business. The sum agreed upon to com plete the navigation was 50,000!. sterling, divided into 500 (hares ot iocL each, to be paid by such inftahnents, and at such times, as the Directors of the Company (hould find necefiary for the prosecution of the work. Ten years were allowed the company to fettle the business. G. J. The company have prosecuted their work with great success, and what is not common in undertakings ef tlus nature, they will complete it for fomsthing less than the sum fubferibed. The rate of toll being fixed, and knowing with some accu racy the quantity of produce that is now brought by land from these parts of the country, which will of course, throw the fame upon the river, they have a certainty of receiving, cn the firft opening of the river, a handsome per centage on their ca pital, (even without calculating upon the articles which will be sent up the river,) and the increase will be almost incredible. Those who best know the circumstances of the country, and some, who are not among the moll sanguine with refpccl to the pro fits of this undertaking, have no doubt of the capital's producing fifty per cent, annually, in less than ten years from the time of the toll's commencing. The principal work in completing the above mentioned navigation, is at the Great Falls, fourteen miles above the city of Washington—at the Little Falls, four miles above the said city, and in clearing the river between these two Falls. At the Great Falls, the water falls 72 feet in 1 mile and half—and at the Little Falls 36 feet 8 inches in about two miles.—At the for- mer there will be fix, and at the latter three locks. The locks at the Little Falls will be finitlled this season, and fit for use ; those at the Great Falls are in forward- ness—and, with clearing the bed of the ri ver between the two falls, will be completed next year. This will finifh the navigation of the main river, from Cumberland down to tide-water, and enable the Company to receive the reward ot their expesfe and la bor. Boats, carrying from one hundred and fifty to two hundred barrels of flour, already pass from Cumberland to the Great Falls; and many thousand barrels of flour have actually been brought in boats to the latter place during the present year. Bcfides the main river of the Poto mack, its numerous and extensive branches offer the prafpeft of transporting to the main river, and from thence to the ship ping ports, an immense quantity of pro duce. The following are the principal ftrramx which empty into the Potowmack, shove tide-water, and the distances to which they are navigahle in their natural (late, from their conflux with the Potowmack. R.
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