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Subtitle: Including the Commerce of America With Europe ; Particularly With France and Great Britain ; in Two Volumes Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1794 Original Publisher: J.S. Jordan Subjects: United States History / Europe / France History / United States / General History / United States / 19th Century Travel / Europe / France Travel / United States / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: At the fide of this library is a cabinet of natural hiftory. I obferved nothing curious in it, but an enormous thigh-bone, and fome teeth as enormous, found near the Ohio, in a mafs of prodigious bones, which nature feems to have thrown together in thofe ages whofe events are covered from the eye of hiftory by an impenetrable veil. LETTER XVI. ON THE MARKET OF PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 3, 1788. TF there exifts, fays Franklin, an Atheift in the univerfe, he would be converted on feeing Philadelphia -- on contemplating a town where every thing is fo well arranged. If an idle man fhould come into exiftence here, on having conftantly before his eyes the three amiable fifters, Wealth, Science, and Virtue, the children of Induftry and Temperance, he would foon find himfelf in love with them, and endeavour to obtain them from their parents. Such are the ideas offered to the mind on a market-day at Philadelphia. It is, without contradiction, tradicYion, one of the fineft in the univerfe. Variety and abundance in the articles, . order in the diftribution, good faith and tranquillity in the trader, are all here united. One of the eflential beauties of a market is cleanlinefs in the pro- vifions, and in thofe who fell them. Cleanlinefs is confpicuous here in every thing; eve
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