Philadelphia, March i, i7W JUST PUBLISHED, y MATHEW CAREY, Nt. 118, Marlut Jlrcet, IHE first volume of a new SYSTEM OF Modern Geography • OX. A Geographical, Kifiorical, ana Commercial Grammar; And prefti't state ol'the (everal NATIONS OF THE WORLD. CONTAJ N I MC, I. Th* figures, motions, and diftancet of the planets, according to the Newtonian fyf tein and the latest observations. 1 A genera) view of the earth, confidcred as a p ; with leveral ufeful geographical definitions and problems. 3 .The grand divisions of the globe into land and water, continents and islands. 4. The situation and extent bt empires, kingdoms, dates, provinces and colonies j. Their climates, air, foil, vegetables, prodigious. metals, minerals, natural curi oftrie*, Teas, rivers,bays,capes, promontories, atid lakes. 6. The birds and beasts peculiar to each country. 7. Qb r ervations on, the changes that have been anv where observed upon the face of na ture since the mod ear[y periods of history. 8. The history and origin of nations ; their forms of government, religion, laws, reve nue. raxes, naval and military flrength. 9. I'lie genius, manners, cuftomsj and ha b'r< of *he people. 10. Thjeir language, learninjj,arts,ftiences, roa*nifa viz; Hemp, BAR IRON, RUSSIA SHEII ING, RAVEN'. DUCK, RUSSIA DUCK, HOG'« BRISTLES. AND FOR SALE EY John Donnaldfon, No. 21, Wrv di\V3Uv t : March 4,1794' War Department. January 3oth 1794. INFORMATION is tit > iv, n the m inary tnv,ilidsof the United S(aies,that th fums to which thev ireeKttled lot fix months of the'r annual pension, from the fonuh day ot September 1793, and which will b. com. due "n he sth dc United Statu are reqvcjlcd to insert tht above notice in their paper. 8 (£j- Ttii Gazette JhaU be enlarged, at it receives encouragement —The Subfcriplion encreafet daily—Advertising Favori are folicited —Tbefe conjtitute an ejftnhal Item n diminijhing the Debit Jide of the Account. JuJ} Imported, FroM London, Dublin, and Glasgow, And now opening lor Tale, By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-fireet, A Large and Valuable COLLECTION of BOOKS,- Among which are the following: \TEW Annual Regiiter for 1792 European Magazine for the firft »* months of 1793 Gibbons decline and fall of the Roman Empire Memoirs of rhe Manchelter society, 3 Priestly on matter and Ipirit on christianity Disney's lite of Dr. Jortin Kingville's ancient geography D'Anoirt of Guy Wi Memty,a collection of essays Varieof Pruflia's works Calm observer—by Mackintoih Ruflell's ancient and modern Europe Langhorne's Plutarch Elegant extra&s, fnperbly gilt Elegant extracts of natural history Sangnier and Briflbn's voyage Rochon's voyage to Madagascar Townfend's travels in Spain Taflb's Jerusalem delivered Smellie's. tranllation of Buffon Berwick's hiftoiy of quadrupeds Buffon abridged History of birds history of inland navigation Hooper's rational recreations History of France, in 3 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 ro polite literature. Imlav's dtfcription ol Kentucky Pre lent state of Nova-Scotia Present state of Hudson's Bay Preston on inafonry Lavater on abridged Zimmerman's survey Murphy's life of Dr. Johnfoo Necker on executive power Kifies of Secundus Gallery of port'aits Volnev's ruins of empires Vaillaint's, travels, with superb engravings Downman's infancy \dair'sTiiftory of American Ind.ans # feeningron on materialism and imma'eriahfm Be~chold'« ad rice to patriotic travellers Builder's magazine Complete farmer Chandon'iiife of Voltaire He Non's travels Franklin's life and works G ozier's description <>f China Murphy's translation of Tacitus Godwin on pol ticaljuftice Gazefferr of France, 3 vols. Helvetic* on man Kaimes's fketchcs of the history of man Liberal opinion*, or the hiftqryoi Benignus Mawe's gardener's dictionary Noble's memoirs of the Cromwell tamily Playhmife di&ionary fleveries ofSolitude Smith's theory of moral (entiroettts Stackhouf'-'s history of the bible Watibn's life of Philip lid. &: Hid. Wouder.s of nature, and art, 6 vols. Wanley's wonders of the little world, called Wali 3 on the prevention of diseases Moore's journal in France Cox's tvavvls into Denmark,Ru(fia,Poland,&rc. Cox's 'ravels into Switzerland Rabant's history of the French revolution Life of Lord Chatham Mallet's northern antiquities Motherby's medical dictionary Grigg's advice to females , Hamilton's outlines of the practice of mid- wifery Manning'- practice of phytic Cleghorn's fcliteafes of Minorca In ie-> or. the muscles Pott's works Fourcroy's chemistry Armstrong on diseases of children Quincy's dispensatory Edinburgh dispensatory Lewis's dispensatory Ryan on the aftlima Robertfon's treatifc oh 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 Halter's physiology Spalanzane's — London pra&ice of phytic Bell's surgery Chaptal's chemistry. H. KNOX, dam By MATHFW CAREY, No. üB, Market-Street, An Eflay. on Slavery Designed to exhibit it) » new point o( view, its effr&s on month, indujlry, and the peace of ociety. Some facts and calculation® are offered to prove the labor of freemen to be much more produdive than that ot Jlaves ; that coudmr* are rich, powerful and happy, in proportion «; the laboring people enjoy the frUit» of their own labor ; and hence the nvices to all tbofc Geotiemrn, who can place confidence ,n him ; and tu assures thofc who employ him, that thrir confidence (hall not he misplaced " but it fcall be his tonftant endeavor, to pay the ftn6c(t attention lotheiv best inlerett, in all sc. gociations whatever. He has taken ihe Chamber, in State-Strut, over Mr. David Town/end, Watch Makei's Shop.■•— Where PUBLIC SfcCURI* TltS, of all kmds, are bought and fold; and wheie Commiflion Bufiuefs of all kinds, will be (ranta&ed on reasonable terms. HOUSES and VESSELS will be conftaotly exposed torfale,on commiflion. * %• Ca(h paid for Salem, Providence, and Porifmouih BILLS. N. B. If any Gentleman in Philadelphia, pr NtW'Yorks has any Bvjinefs to tranfad at Uo/leu, in Paper Negoctationt, hi will be to be em ployed on commijfion. . . Boston, Jan. 24, 1794. uiw&ftf Fifty Dollars Reward. ON the 31ft of laA month, the fubfrnb r xd drrffcJ a letter to M flTr*. Thomas Pear/all £2 Son, mnchant# in and mclofcd 1 herein a bank Qote, No. 445, for twenty dol. lars ; one ditto, No. »«». 101 thirty dollars; and one ditto, No. 3,866, for twmy dollars. —He also addressed a letter to Mr. Gilbert SaltonJlaU, merchant in New-York, inc'ofiug a batik bill, No. 148, for fi!:y dollars, indoied on the back thereof in iheO words—*' Pas the wit bin to M>. Gilbert SaltonJlaU —tbtn. hunting* ton."—He also ad.'.rclTai a lettei toMtfffS. White & War delt % merchanta in New-Yotk, and indo fed a bank bill for ten dollars, an" a draft in fa vor of fa>d White & WarJelf, which letters were put in the Pott-Office on fatd 31ft January, to be forwarded to New-Yoik : But by letters re ceived from the Gentlemen to whom they w re severally addressed, the money was robbed ftom each letter before delivery. The Public are rcqiuflrd to endeavor a dt* t eft ion of the V llains who com mined the above robberv. The bill indorsed, I think was »Y> rk bank bill, and some otheis, one or more was of the Umied States bank, remitted at Philadel phia. Any person difcovrring the Thief, and returning tl»e Money, (h?!l be entitled to fifty dollars reward. EBEN. HUNTINGTON. Norwich, 14th F' b. 1794- 3 W S ; ,iw PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A Ground Plan OF THE City Philadelphia, AND ITS ENVIRONS: Taken from actual survey, by A. P. Folie, Geographer, from St. Domingo. THIS P«a« will be engraved on a plate 26 inches square ; and it will contain an ex ad defenption of all the (quares, ftrrets and alleys in the City and Liberties. The Creation of the several public bnr'.dingi, foeh as the State* House, City-Hall, Seat of Congress, Churches, Meeting-Houles, Hospital, Library and Semina ries of Learning—of the several Banks, and oi the Federal and State Offices, will be afccrcaiaed'. The parts which are built on will he diftingufh ed from those that are not. The courses of the rivulets between Delaware and Schuylkill, and as much of the Canal, intended to conned the naVigat ion of those two waters, as lies within the compass of the draught, will be accurately delineated. It will also be ornamented by a virw of the (hipping in the harbor, and an ele* vation of Congress.-Hall, and of the other public buildings that occupy the ground contiguous. In short, nothing will be omitted to render this ufeful and d<(irable work acceptable to an en lightened public, that is in the author's power : and it (hall be compleated with the greatest poflible difoatch, as soon as the generons encou ragement of fubfcnbeis (hall insure to the author such a sum as will be fuHkicnt to defray ex pencrs. A Pamphlet will be delivered with each Plan, which will contain an alphabetical lift of ihe Subfcribert names, and information con cerning (he police, population and present state of the city. The price to fobfcrtbrra will be Two Dollars and due third, to be paid at the time of deliver, ing the Plans. Subscriptions will be gratefully received at the principal Booksellers iu this citv—and the original Dr»ft may be seen at B. Davie.*', No, 68, Mtikr t-ftrret, at any tifne until it (hall be put in»o the hands of the Engraver, Daily's Hotel. GIFFORD DALLY, Formerly Keeper of the City Tavern., and of the Merchant't Coffee-Houft of this City :— RtSfECTFULLY informs his Friends and the Public m general, that he has THIS DAY opened a HOTEL in Shippta-Strut, be tween Thjrd and Fourth.Streeis, at the House formerly occupied by Mr. Timmons, which has lately been greatly improved, and is now \ery commodious ; where he has turnifhed hinj felt with the best of LIQUORS, and will fur-, nifti a/TABLE for Parties, with the best provi sions the Markets a (Turd, at any hour, on the (horteft notice. From his long experience iiv this line of buftnefs, he flatters himlelf be shall be able to fjivc iatisfa&ion to all who may pleafc to favor hi in with their company. Philadelphia, January >9,1794. n PHILADELPHIA : Printed by JOHN FENNO, No. 3, South Fourth-Street. mSrthtf