ESSAYS AND TRACTS, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL, BEFORE THE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION,

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AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION AND

GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA,

VOLUME IV.

ESSAYS AND TRACTS, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL, BEFORE THE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION, CONTINUED.

I. Watson's Abstract of Franklin's Electrical Experiments and

Observations,

II. Letter from the Abbé Nollet to Benjamin Franklin,

III. Speech of the Earl of Macclesfield, President of the Royal

Society, on the Occasion of awarding to Franklin a Medal

for his Discoveries in Electricity,

IV. Letter from John Baptist Beccaria to Benjamin Franklin,

V. Letter from Professor Thorbern Bergman, of Upsal, to Ben-

jamin Wilson,

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VI. Letter from M. Dubourg to M. de Lor.

the Theories of Franklin and Nollet,

Parallel between

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VOLUME VI.

LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS.

VOLUME VII.

CORRESPONDENCE.

PART FIRST; COMPRISING PRIVATE LETTERS TO THE TIME OF

THE AUTHOR'S FIRST MISSION TO ENGLAND. 1725-1757.

PART SECOND; COMPRISING LETTERS, PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL,

FROM THE TIME OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST MISSION TO ENG-

LAND, TO THE BEGINNING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

1757-1775.

VOLUME VIII.

CORRESPONDENCE.

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PART THIRD; COMPRISING LETTERS, PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL,

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, TO

THE END OF THE AUTHOR'S MISSION TO FRANCE. 1775-

1785.

APPENDIX.

I. A Fragment of Polybius; from his Treatise on the Athenian

Government,

II. Memoir of Sir John Dalrymple; or a Project of Lord Roch-

ford to prevent the War,

VOLUME IX.

CORRESPONDENCE.

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PART FOURTH ; COMPRISING PRIVATE LETTERS FROM THE
TERMINATION OF THE AUTHOR'S MISSION TO FRANCE, TO
THE END OF HIS LIFE.

1785-1790.

I. List of the Author's Writings, chronologically arranged,

II. Letters written by Franklin to Individuals and Public Bodies, 464

III. Letters addressed to Franklin by various Persons,

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IV. Miscellaneous Letters,

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V. General Index,

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11. Pennsylvania Fireplace, (Plate V.)

12. Profile of the Pennsylvania Chimney and Fireplace. - Stafford

shire Fireplace. (Plate VI.)

13. Magical Squares, (Plate VII.)

14. Magical Circle, (Plate VIII.)

17. Aurora Borealis, &c., (Plate XI.)

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XIV.)

(Plate

15. Waterspout, (Plate IX.)

16. Armonica, (Plate X.)

18. Improvements in Navigation, (Plate XII.)

19. Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, exhibiting the Course of the Gulf Stream, &c., (Plate XIII.)

20. Illustrating the Causes and Cure of Smoky Chimneys, (Plate

21. Stove for burning Pit-coal, (Plate XV.)

22. Portrait of Mrs. Franklin,

Frontispiece, VII.

VOL. I.