"KV" 1 794- JUST PUBLISHED, B/ MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market Jlrcet, !_>£ FIRST VOLUME OF A NEW SYSTEM Of Modern Geography : OR, A Geographical, Hijlorical, ana Commercial Grammar; And prefeut state of the several NATIONS OF THE WORLD. CONTAINING, 1. Th* motions, and diilances of the planets,according so the Newtonian sys tem and tJie fated observations. 2. A general'view earth,confidere d as a planetpvith feveraljufeful geographica definitions and problems. 3 The g' and divisions of the giobe into land and water, continent* and islands. 4. The situation and extent of empires, kingdoms,ftates, provinces and colonies. 5. Their climates, air, foil, vegetables, pVoduftions, metals, minerals, natural ciiri oTities,Teas, rivers,bays, capes, promontories, aud lake*;. 6. The birds and beasts peculiar to each country. 7. Observations on the changes that have been any where observed upon the face of nature since the m'oft earlyj periods of his tory. 8. The History and origin of nations; tlitni forms of government, religion, law., revemie^taxes,naval and military strength 9. The genius, manners, customs, anc habits of the people. 10. Their language,ler.r'ning,arts,*fcien ces, manufactures, and commerce. 11. The chief cities, flru&mes, ruins and artificial curiplities 12. The longitude, 1 latitude, btari- gs and distances of principal places fVomPhiia delpliia. r __„ To w ' /ch are added, t. A \phic ai. Index, with the names and places alphabetically arranged. 2. A Table ot the Coins of all natidns, and their value in dollars and cents. 3- A Chronological Table of remarka ble events,from the creation to the pre-tent time. i By WILLIAM GUTHRIE, Esq. The Astronomical Pa»t corrected by Dr. Rittenhouse. To which have- been added, The late Discoveries of Dr. Hers c hell, arid other ttoineirt Astronomers The FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, Corrcfted, Improved, and greatly Enlar- ged. The firft voUiipe contains twenty-one Maps end Charts,belides two Astronomical Plates, viz. i. Map of the world. 2. Chart of the worle 3. Europe. 4. Asia. 5. Africa. 6. South America. 7* Cook's difcovcies. 8. Countries round the north Pole. 9. Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. ! iO. Se ven United Provinces. 11. Austrian, French and Dutch Netherlands. 12. Ger many. 13 Seat of war in France. 14. France divided into departments. 15. Switzerland. :6. Italy, Sicily, and Sar dinia. 17. Spain and Portugal. 18. Turkey in Europe and Hungary. 19. Ire land. 20. Weft-Indies. 21. Vermont. 22. Ar miliary sphere. 23. Copernitan system. With the lecond volume, which is now in the press, will be given the following Maps : 1. Ruflia in Europe and Asia. 2. Scotland. 3. England and Wales. 4. Poland. 5. China. 6. Hindoftan. 7. United States. 8. Briti£h America. 9. State of New-Hampfliire. 16. State of Maffacbafetts. H. State of Conne&icut. * ra. State of Rhode Island. ij State of New-York. State of New-Jei fey. is* State ot Pennsylvania 16. State of Delaware. 17- State of Maryland. State of Virginia. 19* State of Kentucky. 20. State of North-Carolin. 21. TennefTee Government. 22. State of South-Carolina. % 23* State of Georgia. TERMS. i. This work will be compriied in two volumes. i. subscribers pay for the present volume ondehvery, fix dollars, and the price of binding, (j6 cents for boards.) 3. They may receive the fuc. ceding vo lume In twenty-four weekly numbers, at a quarter dollar each, or else, when si ; L at the fame P rice as the firft. £ npt ' on wilbe raired on the iirlt day of June 1794. to fourteen dol larsj exclusive of binding. J. Should any copies remain for sale after the completion of the work, they will be fold at Mxteen dollars, and the price of binding. r 6. The names of the fuWcribers will be pubulhed as patrons of American litera ture, arts, and sciences. It i» wholly unneceflary to expatiate on the advantage,to American reader,, that tlm.edition poffefTas, over every imported anyfyftem of Ge'og aphy extant. The addit tion of maps of thefeveral testa i procured a very great expense, and from' belt materials that are attainable, .-y.v T^l- fpralc? fucli fall coriviflion on this {object that it would be difrefpeft to tie undvltanding to suppose it requisite to enter into a detail ot .rgurhent. ro prove its fdperionty. I" nofimilarwork have fucli maps bsenever innoduced. The eniendatioiisand addittons whic are made in this work,are innumerable, and occur in every page. The public are re_ fened to tTie piet'ace for a lltglit (ketch of a few of them. The publisher takes the present oppor tunity of returning his most (incere thanks to those refpeftable characters who have favored him with documents for improv ng the mapsof several of the ftatcs. He requests a conti nuance of their > atid hopes that such pnblis spirited .citizens as are pofiefled of similar documents, u i• 1 favor him with theirafllftance in p€rfctt- ing his undertaking. The extraordinary encouragement with which he has been favored, has excited in hisbreaft thfe warmcft (entiments of gra titude—fen time nts wjtich time will not ef face. He pledges himfelf to the citizens of the United States, to fpnre neither pains nor expense to render the present edition of Guthrie's Geog' aphy improved, deferv i g M' their patronage. waftf Joseph Clark, ARCHITECT AT ANNAPOLIS,' Proposes to publijb, by fubfeription, POLYMATHY j O R The American Builder. A Work calculated equally to edify and en tertain the Gentleman, Farmer,Sur- veyor, Builder & Mechanic. THIS work, will contain various opinions if the belt writer® on Architecture, Arts, »nd Science; together with experiments, and accurate notes of obfeivation, by the uthor; br ing the result of thirty years Itudy and ex perience in profeflion. It will alio contain an alphabetical account of the quality and value of the various kinds of mateii'als, and numerous species of labor, exp nded on building. Exrmpl fixations, to ascertain the quanti ties of materials and labor neccfl'ary to com plete, almost, every part in a building, of whatever dimensions. An account and explanation of all the terms and phrases, ufei in ancient and mo dern archite&ure and building. To persons inclined to build, it w ill afford an opportunity of icgulating thcij plans with in ihecompafs of their finance?, and prepare them to prevent impositions Irom tricking venders of materials, and extoriiona'e work men—To Mechanics, who cannot, for want of expnience, calculate the value ot their refpeftiVe labour, and materials expended in their particular branches of Building, this work will afford an opportunity 10 estimate with facii'tv and accuracy, any done or in tended to be done, either in tne aggregate or the minutie. It will contain many curious and valuable recipes to make fine and coarfc varniftKS,f«r prelerving roofs of hnufes, barns, palings, troughs, pipes, &c. Recipes to makevai ous glues and cements ; recipes to make coin pofitions for elegant, or minute ornaments, and enrichments for oufide or inside com partments : recipes to make compofuion lor figures and incruftaiiont—to endure the weather in any alpefct; rccipes to make ftu'e i co compofiiions, for floors, inalt-lioufes, dif tillrrirs, healths, linings for ciftcins. & c . 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Prupofitions and recipes to cure smoky chimnies: Observations on the i„ft a bility of the edifices heretofore, generally" "'ft.d in- America : Suggestions of modes to pu.fue m buildings here, that will, without additional expence, tend more to their dura bil'ty than those heretofore, commonly, con itrlifted : Dctcriptions and proportion, of Ihe general and particular members of vari nus orders in Architecture, viz. the Tuscan Doric, lonic, Corinthian, Compofit. Chil nefe, Attic, Cargat.c, Arabesque, Morefquc, Orotefque, Saracenic, RuHic, Antique, Antil quo-Modtin, Gothic, and Britannic : Many curious h ftorical accounts of various won. derful buildings ,n different parts ot the world : Many curious and original account, and eulogiurns on Free Masonry, This work will be printed in two octavo volumes, each to contain upwards of 400 pages, on fine paper of elegant letter prrfs ■ The price to fubferibers, in boards, five dollars; two and a ha l r do t cars to be paid on the delivery of the firfl, and two and a half dollars on the delivery of the second volume. Mr. ClSrk allures the public, that he will literally perform all that he hath let forth in these proposals. Gentlemen inclined to promote this woik by fubfcrib,n ff thereto, are requeued to write, P«ft paid, to Mr. jofeph Clark, a, Annapolis, authoring him to annex their names to the lublcripiion lift. licked ,n rintCr ' i."r' hC U ""f S,a( "- are fo a Bhce?„fh Ve ' - ,r °P° f,l, > o «aiionally, a place in their pjpeis. »• - m The following fe&ion of the law for establishing an Health-Office, parted the last fefiion of tht Legtflature. is r -publiftitd lor the information ot all concerned. Wm. ALLEN, K< alth-Officer, for the port o 1 Philadelphia, No. 21, 'Key's alley. June 2, 1794- Sec. 7. AND be it further cnafted by the anthority aforefaid, That every master or captain of any (hip or vcflel coming from be vond the sea (vessels actually employed in the coasting irade of the Untied States'excepted) and bound to any port or place within the junfdiftion of Pennsylvania, (half cause his (hip or vessel to be brought to anchor, or otherwtfe stayed in the stream of the river Delaware;, opposite to the health-office on State-island aforifafd, and there to remain until he. (ball have duly obtained a certificate or bill ol health from ihe resident physician, in the manner and upon the terms herein be fore dmfted : and if, p'ievioufly to obtain ing tiich certificate' or bill of lica Ith, any mafteror captain (hall fuffcr his ship or vessel to approach nearer than the said health-o'ffice to ihe city of Philadelphia, or fha] 1 land, or cause or I'ufFer to be landed, or brought on shore, at any port place within this com monwealth, or at any other port or place, with tfce intent to be conveyed into this com monwealth, any person or persons, or any goods* wares or merchandize ; or if a'ter re ceiving such certificate or bill of health, he ihaJJ neglect or refufe to deliver the fame the health-officer agreeably to the directions ot this ast, such rnafter or captain fii.il! for feu and pay, for each and every such offence, the ium of five hundred dollars to be recover ed and appropriated as hereinafter provided and directed , and the captain or master of each and every (hip or vessel, as foou as the fame is brought to anchor, or other wife stayed as aforefaid, shall fend a fafe and commodious boat to bring the resident physician on board of his ship or ve(Tel, and fhalf in I'ike man ner convey him back to the health-office atier he has concluded his official examina tion; and while he is.making such examina tion,or" in cafe ol any f«jbfch and every offence, to be recovered and appro priated as is hereinafter provide d and d rest ed. To be Let, For Merchants Compting Houses or Public Offices, Two brick 3 story Houses, HAVING 6100 ms in each,with fire places beside garrets,fituate on the south weflerlv fide of Dock ftrect, between Pear and Walnut ilreets. Enquire of BENJAMIN IV. MORRIS. i 7. Excellent CLARET, In hogiheads and in c,fr s of 5 o boulcs each. also, A few cases Champaigne Wine : MADEIRA, In pipes, hojy (heads and quarter ca(ks, FOR SALE BY JOHN VAUGHAN, No. 111, South Front llreet. J an « 2 » *794- dtf rHE office of tlie Proficient and Direft l)t , of the Insurance Company of Noi-Trf America, is removed t« No. 107 Soufh Front It leer, being rlie foutli '.all cu'ner y? Fi ont and Walnut Itree:-. The Public are cautioned ta beware of counterfeited Five Dollar Bills of the Bank of the United States, and Tivmj Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America, several of e not parallel, the/inclining much more forward than the The engraving is badiy cxecoied.the ft.okrs of all the Letueis aie stronger and the rfevi e 111 the margin pai ticulany ismuch coa.ltr and appears darker lhao in ihe true bills. Some ot the cSnnt erf cits b. ar da:e in | 791—Where as the Bank vrasnot its operatiot, till Decern ber, and no five dollar bills were iflued in ihat year. Twenty Dollar Bills of the Bank of North America. ALL that have appealed have the letter B: tor their alphabetical mark. They are primed on a pn?er nearly similar to that of the counterfeit Five Dollai .Notts above described ; the engraving- is better exe ucted, and they approach nearer to the ap. pearatfee »| the genuine bills. The firte ruled lines throngh the word Trxcn* t\ y in the body o! the bill, are in number th r teei) in the genuine b llss and but twelve in the Counterfeits. g The word Company is much like the fame" Word in tue Five Qollar si lis «s dcTci ibed a bove, tlie o being lels than the ot, and uthers folio w ing. There is no stroke to the / in the word North whereas in the genuine bills the ftrok'e is well defined. The letters ent in the word Twenty, to ti»e left hand at the bottom, do not come down to the line, hut are (o cut as to give an irregular appearance to the word, the Tw and the/ go ing below them. The } Nixon, has the appear ance of being written w'itn lafsb-black and oil, and dittos ir'om oiher inks u(cd ir. printing the pills and the cafliiei's lignattH'?. It is iuppoied tiu le forgeries were committed itHomeoithe Southern •States, as all the ctiut.- terfcits thai have appeared, have come Irons thence/and two perPous have been apprehend ed in Virginia, on fiHpicton of being the author of them. The reward of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS wili be patd to any Perlon or Pcrfmis who lha:I discover and prosecute to conviction the fevcral offenders of the following defWiptions or any of them, viz. The peifon or p< rfons, who manufa&ured the paper on whicn the Hills are printed. The peifon or per lons, who engraved the plates. 1 he printer or printers, of the bills. Every pcrfon who ha* «#ed as a pr ncipal in any other way, mi the counterfeiting and utter ing the said bills. Philadelphia, March 28, j794 dpril 22, 1794, Other counterfeit bills of the Bank of the Uniied Stares have appeared in circulation. The denomination is of TWENTY DOL* LARS,and the alphabetical mark is the let ter B. They may be diftinguilhed from the genu ine following; MARKS .* • The paper of* the counterfeits is of a more tend *r texture and glofley fur face than the genuine, and there islio water mark in the in. Tine letter C. in the word Calhier, in the true bills is strongly marked, whereas in the counterfeits, the whole letter is a fine hair ltroke, evidently in an unjjnilhed state. The letter a in the word demand, is badly lormed and the whole word ill done, and there is no comma at the end of it, as there is in the genuine hills. J He marginal device, is much darker in tfce falie, than in the genuine bills owing to the (hade strokes being coai/er, much nearer together, and confequeotly much more nu merous. This difference ft'ikes the eye atfirft view. . - i The fame reward of - ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, will be paid for apprehending & pfofecuting r«> conviction the several above de(bribed Offenders in lefpedl to this, as to the Jaft described bills. tuth&stf THOMAS WILLING, PicWeot ol the B;nk Unitrd States. JOHN NIXON, Pffirttni of the JhiariJc ot North America, By order of the Committees of the Ref pc&ive Hoj«ds. PHILADELPHIA J'riktsd by JOHN FENNO, No. 3, f"* South Fourth-Street. w ijn. » .* >-*•-■ - « v :