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1842

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by HARPER & BRothers,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

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The Way to Wealth; as clearly shown in the practice of

an old Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled, "Poor Richard

Improved"

On True Happiness

Public Men

The Waste of Life

Self-denial not the Essence of Virtue

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On the Usefulness of the Mathematics

The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams

Advice to a young Tradesman

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Rules of Health

The Ephemera; an Emblem of Human Life. To Madame

On Truth and Falsehood

Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich

The Way to make Money plenty in every Man's Pocket

The Handsome and Deformed Leg

On Human Vanity

On Smuggling, and its various Species

Remarks concerning the Savages of North America

On Freedom of Speech and the Press

On the Price of Corn and the Management of the Poor

Singular Custom among the Americans, entitled White-

washing

On the Criminal Laws and the Practice of Privateering

Letter from Anthony Afterwit

To Francis Hopkinson

To Francis Hopkinson

To Samuel Huntingdon, President of Congress

To the Bishop of St. Asaph

To Miss Alexander

To Dr. Rush

To Miss Catharine Louisa Shipley

To * * *

Copy of the last Letter written by Dr. Franklin

PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS.

To the Abbé Soulavie.-Theory of the Earth

To Dr. John Pringle.-On the different Strata of the Earth 207

To Mr. Bowdoin.-Queries and Conjectures relating to Mag-

netism and the Theory of the Earth

208

To M. Dubourg.-On the Nature of Seacoal

Causes of Earthquakes

211

212

To David Rittenhouse.-New and Curious Theory of Light

Of Lightning; and the Methods now used in America for

the securing Buildings and Persons from its mischievous

Effects

To Peter Collinson.-Electrical Kite.

Physical and Meteorological Observations, Conjectures, and

Suppositions

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232

To Dr. Perkins.-Water-spouts and Whirlwinds compared 240

To Alexander Small.-On the Northeast Storms in North

America

254

To Dr. Lining.-On Cold produced by Evaporation

To Peter Franklin. On the Saltness of Seawater

To Miss Stephenson.-Salt Water rendered fresh by Distil-

lation.-method of relieving Thirst by Seawater

To the same.- -Tendency of Rivers to the Sea.-Effects of

the Sun's Rays on Cloths of different Colours

To the same.-On the Effect of Air on the Barometer, and

the Benefits derived from the Study of Insects

To Dr. Joseph Priestley.-Effect of Vegetation on Noxious

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Air

To Dr. John Pringle. On the Difference of Navigation in

Shoal and Deep Water

To Oliver Neale. On the Art of Swimming

To Miss Stephenson.—Method of contracting Chimneys.-

Modesty in Disputation

To M. Dubourg. Observations on the prevailing Doctrines

of Life and Death

Lord Brougham's Portrait of Dr. Franklin.

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