fuVufclpVa, M»rch, 1 1794-
yusr PUBLISHED,
?,/ MATHEW CAREY,
No. 118, Market Jireet,
r FIRST VOLUME OF A NEW
SYSTEM OF
odern Geography •
OR. A
/. rapbical, ffi/lof icdU ana
Commercial Grammar-,
\»d p efeot ltite of th» I'eve^al
riQNS OF th£ world.
CONTAINING)
Tlv figures, and diftatices of
~■] cling to the fyf*
and the latest observations.
general view oifthe earth,confidered
> j. iane t; wif hfeveralfirfeful geographic*
ons and p'oblems.
Ie g'Jifid divifiotis of the globe into
3 water s go ltinenta and islands*
i e filiation and extent of empires,
.s,ftates, province; and colonres.
ieir climates, foil, vegetables,
Tions, metals} minerals, natural curi
! is,ri vers r bay s,capes,prunwn to.f^s,
> birds and beasts peculiar to each
Starvations on the changes that have
where observed upon the face ol
the most earlyj periods of hif
ht history and origin of nations;
?rins of government, religion, laws,
?s f taxes,naval and military strength
• genius, manners, customs, and
< the people. ,
Vhcir language ,learning?arts, fcien
• fa&ures, and commerce.
f\ chief cities, flru&ures, ruins,
%ial curiosities.
r; longitude, latitude, bearings,
v £3 of principal places from Phila
ia.
To which are added.
\ .Geographical Index, with the
places alphabetically arranged/
A " . 3L £of the Coins of all nations,
value in dollars and cents.
A Ch a l Table of remarka
-vcntSjfrom the creation to the present
By U LLIAM GUTHRIE, Esq.
; Aftronoinical Part corre&ed by
Dr. Rittenhouse.
which h tve been added,
he i r Discoveries ofD- r . Herschell,
and oth v ernine it Astronomers.
/ii* IRST AMERICAN EDITION,,
retried, Improved, and greatly Enlar
ged.
he firft vo'lume contains twenty-one
.aps Bnd Charts,befides twos Altronomical
Plates, viz.
i. JVlap of the world. 2. Chart of the
tforle 3. Europe. 4. Asia. 5. Africa. 6.
South America. Cook's difcoveiies.
Countries round the north Pole. 9. j
Sweden, Denmaik, and Norway. 16- Se- [
ven United Provinces. it. Austrian, |
French and Dutch Netherlands, s2. Ger- |
many. 13. Seat of war in France. 14. J
f 1 '.nee divided into departments. 15. |
Switzerland. :6. Italy, SrcUy, and Sar- j
dinia. 17. Spain and Portugal. 18. I
Turkey in Europe and Hungary. 19. Ire- j
land. 20. Weft-Indies. 21. Vermont. 22. I
Ar miliary sphere. 23. Copernican system. I
With the second volume, wlijch is now I
i 1 the prtfs > will be given the following I
jVlaps:
j. Ruflia in Europe and Asia;*
2. Scotland.
3. 1 England and Wales.
4. Poland.
% 5. China.
6. Hindoftan.
7 United States.
& British America.
ti State of New-Ham pfhirc.
j). State o! MaflTacliufetts.
I • State of Conne<sVicut.
1.2. of Rhode Iftand.
13. State of New-York.
*4- State of New-Jersey.
?5- State of Pennsylvania.
16. State of Delaware.
17. State of Maryland?
*8. State of ; Virginia.
J 9- State of Kentucky. I
. - 30 ' State of North-Carolina*
21. TenneiTee Government.
22. State of South-Carolina.
23- State of Georgia. I
TERMS. I ,
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' The extraordinary encouragement with
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d of the United State,,- to spare neither pains
nor expeofe to lender the pfifent edition
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of Joseph Clark,
yli ARCHITECT AT ANNAPOLIS,
Proposes to publijb, by fubfeription,
:a POLYMATHY ;
O R
ltD The American Builder.
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n " THIS work will contain various opinions
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vs, to ascertain the quanti
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Ml- An account and explanation of all the
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6. refpeftive functions, in proportion to their
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9. idimenfions of the various apertions introdu
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2 Attorney at Law,
INFORMS his friends and the Public,
ith that he has opened an OFFICE lor the sale
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ion June io tutb&stf
T\- L
L A New Novel.
To the LADIES of Philadelphia.
This Day is Published by
MATHEW CAREY*
118, Market street,
Price, bound, five-eighths ol a clollar, sew
ed in marble paper, hal' dollar,
Charlotte, a tale of Truth,
C 0" IN TWO" VOLUMES.
By Mrs. ROWSON, of the New Theatre,
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---*rts, Of Charlotte, the Reviewers have
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,or; IT ma) be a Tale of Truth, for it is
CX not unnatural, and it is a talc t»f real di(
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,or nity rather than a conviction of her inte-
S r ity, or the regularity of her former con
nti- dust, is enticed from her governed and a
>ro- "companies a young officer to America.—
of The marriage ceremony, if not forgotten,
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it h- lotte if such a person ever existed, who
31 for one error scarcely, perhaps, deserved
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"k tion, .poetic justice is not, we think, pro
aiJt perly distributed.
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i hi s A 2 sheet map of Kentucky
a,e compiled by Elihu Barker, price one doi-
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" or War Atlas, containing maps of France,
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the — •
GUTHRIE's GEOGRAPHY
Improved.
ent
THE fubfeription lor thi■! work on the
ilk original term';, of iwelve dollars and the
j u _ binding, wil be doled this day—and on
s Monday the fubfeription will open at four
to_ teen dollars, exclusive of ihe price of bind
s— !"g
---ife The new maps added to this edition are
of twenty one i among which are thole of
fu- cut, Rhode-Hland, Vermont, New York,
of New-Jersey, Pennfytvauia, Delawaie, Ma
la- ryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Caro-
Jn- lina, the Geneffee Government, South Ca
he rolina, and' Georgia. Thele maps have ne
jre vcr been given in any former system of
|a- Geography, and, it is hoped, would alone
■y» be fufEcient to entitle this work to a pre
i° fer<Mice to any other edition of Gifthrie.
sut NB. The map of the United States,
r3 ~ which is compiling by Mr. S.muei Lewis,
from the refpeftive state maps, will be far
r ° more complete than any one yet publifhcd,
an and be printed on two large sheets of
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,ti. M " v 1' d_
m- Just Published,
nts By Benjamin Johnson, and fold at his
Book/lore, No. 147, MarketJireet,
vo
rs: The Life of Dr. Franklin,
y £
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[, e price fivelhillings.
ic, The Ready-Reckoner, or Tiaders 1 Sure j
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The Young Book keeper's Assistant, 6/3 j
k, The Christian, a poem, by Charles Craw- I
te, ford, 2/4 ,
is, El'op's Fables, 4JB
he Swan's Britilh Architcft, 37/6 <
Paine's ditto 33/ t
Town and Country Builder's Assistant. <
io- 82/6 5
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days, and fold as above, 1
Reflections and Maxims, by t !
William p e nn, with his advice to his chil- c
e " den, 4/8. a
te 16 mo. 2, 1794. m&wim f
a
J; Congress of the United States, 1
In Senate, Tuefaay May 13 th, 1794. 1
j /"\RDERED, that Ruftu Put 'am, Ma- C
T naf fah Cutler, Robert Oliver and '
ijj GriflijiGreen, do, upon the third Monday of \
December next, (hew cause to the Senatr, ,
h " why so much of the grants of land to them
Q the said Rufus Putnam, Manaflah Cut r
l_ Robert Oliver and Griffiq Green, puift.ant a
. to an Aft entitled " An aft authorizijig p
|e the grant and conveyance of certain lands e
to the Ohio Company of aflociatei," (hall
• not be declared void, as may interfere
II with and be fufficient to fatisfv the claims
Us tllr french settlers at Galliopoljs.
s Ordered, that the delivery of a copy I
s of the above order to Rufus Putnam, Ma
e naflah Cutler, Robert Oliver, or Gnftin
. Green, and the publication of the fame,
t one 'lonih, in one of the Gazettes printed
tn this City, fliall be deemed fufficient no.
ttce thereof. a
Extract from the Journals of Senate. !!
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. May I4 SAM * A ' ° TIS ' reCretar >'-
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v " Your most obedient^
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May 3. estf.
The following fedtion
of the law for establishing an Health-Office,
See. parted the last feflion of ihi Legislature,
is is rr-publifhed lor the information of all
f- concerned.
Wm. ALLEN, Health-Officer,
i- for the port of Philadelphia, No. 21,
». Key'i alley.
i- June 2, 1794.
Sec. f. AND be it further enacted by the
— authority aforefaid, That every matter or
1,- captain of any (hip or vcffcl doming from be
r r vond the sea (vtffels actually employed in the
ti- coasting trade of the United States excepted)
t- and bound to any port or place within the
jurifdi£lion of Pennsylvania, shall cause his
r . (hip or vefiel to be brought to anchor, or
)0 otherwise stayed in the flrcam of the river
Delaware, opposite to the health-office on
c State-island alorefafd, and there to remain
D until he (hall have duly ©btained a certificatt
or bill of health from the rend ent physician,
in the manner and upon the terms herein be
fore dir<-sed : and if, previoudy to obtain
y ing (uch certificate or bill of tiealth, any
mafler or captain (hall fufFer his ship or veire)
to approach nearer than the said health-office
to the city of Philadelphia, or shall land, or
e ' cause or fuffer to be landed, or brought on
n (hore, at any port or placc within tlm com
s* monwealth, or at any other port or place,
with the intent to be conveyed into this com
monwealth, any person or persons-, or any
a ". goods, wares or merchandize ;or if after re
ceiving such certificate or bill of health, h«-
H-all negle£t or refufe to deliver the fame to
the health-officer agreeably to the direQions
of this aft, such master or captain (hall for
rr fen and pay, for each and every such offence,
1 he ium of five hundred dollars to bt recovei
ed and appropriated as hereinafter provided
'and directed , and the captain or master o'
each and every (hip or vessel, as soon as the
ie fame is broWght to anchor, or otherwise stayed
ie as aforefaid, (hall fend a fafe and commodiou.s
)n boat to bring the resident physician on board
-- of his (hip or vessel, and shall in like man
i- ner convey him back to the health-office
after he has concluded his official examine
e tion ; and while he is making such cxamina
of tion,or in cafe ot any subsequent examination
* u — flffiear and m.ofi.lting
c, as the cafe may be, each and every part of the
1- (hip or vessel, and shall present to his view
and every person on board thereof, and
1- 'hall also true and fatiffaftory answers make
to all such questions as the resident physician
if at the ;ime of examination, or the health offi
e cer at the time of delivering the certificate, or
biil of health, in the city of Philadelphia, or
at the time of examination to be had by tfic
Health-officer together, with the consulting
' phyfiician fhallafk relative ro the health ol anv
' port or placc liom which the (hip or vessel
failed, or has since touched at, the number of
' persons on board when the (hip or vessel en
tered on her voyage, the number of per for
that have since been landed or taken on
board, and when or where refpeftively, what
persons on board,if any have been during the
voyage, or (hall at any ('me of examination, '
be infected with any pestilential or contagi- '
ous disease, whatperfou belonging to the (hip
f or vessel, if any died during the voyage, and 1
of what disease, and what is the present state
*nd condition of the persons on board with «
refpeft to their health and disease« ; and if 1
any captain or master of any (hip or vessel 1
uialirelufe to expose the fame as aforefaid to
the search and examination of the undent \
» physician, or of the health-officer and confnlt- j
ing physician, as the cafe may be ;or if, hav- f
ing on bra°d his ship or vessel any such per- {
( , on ° r persons, he (hall conceal the fame, or
» if in any manner whatsoever he (hall knowing
ly deceive or attempt to deceive the propti
officers aforefaid in his answers to their offici
al enquiries, iuch captain or master, for each
and every such offence, (hall forfeit and pay !
the fuiri of five hundred to be re- 1
covered and appropiiated as hereinafter pro- 1
vtded and ('iiefted ; and wherever the rcfi 1
1 "tut physician, or confuting* physician, e
the cafe maybe, shall dircft any person •,
persons, or any goods, or merchandize
to be landed at the health-office, or any ship
or vcfTel to be detained opposite thereto, and a
and (here to be fmoaked, cleansed and pu ri- a
n * K a P tain of the °r velfel (hall i„
all refpefts conform to such dire£)ions,
Ihall at the proper cost and charge of his cin.
ployers carry the fame into effect » i hin such
time as the resident physician, ot
confultiug physician, as the cafe m ay be, (hall
alow and piefcribe; and if any mailer or "
. captain (hall refufe or neglcft to conform to
ihcfe said aireflions, and to carry the fam< I
into iftcdt as aforefaid, acfordiug to the rff
peccive objrfls thereof, he (hall forfeu a„<:
pay the sum of five hundred dollars for each ,
and every offence, to be recovered and appro
pruted as is hereinafter provided and dneft
ed. v
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TO BE SOLD, ~ n
A large elegant House, ;
and Lot of Ground,
TN an eligible fituntion,—alfo a Countrv
Seat within 6 miles of the City with Q
acres of land, or 42 acres of land and -
meadow, the House is not exceeded bvmn.
Ny in the vicinity of the city, in fixe, „r -
convenience.
For particulars apply to the printer. F
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