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Preface The Preface to Vol. II, although short, 

 has not been given entire ; it is mainly in regard to the 

 fragment of an article by Dr. Schoepf on the climate 

 of North America, which appears as a prefix to Vol. 

 II. The appendices, also omitted in this text, are ex- 

 plained, and apology is offered for including in Vol. I 

 the sketch map of North America, taken from Bailey's 

 Pocket Almanac, Philadelphia, 1785. Dr. Schoepf 

 states that his meteorological observations have been 

 confirmed by those of Williams, made at Cambridge 

 in New England with Mannheim instruments, and 

 published in Ephemerid. Societat. Meteorolog. Pala- 

 tinae anni 1785. This was Samuel Williams [1743- 

 1817], teacher of Count Rumford, and Hollis Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics at Harvard, 1780- 1788. 



P. 5 With respect to the Western country, it is in- 

 teresting to observe the remark in the Freeman's 

 Journal for Dec. 31, 1783, that common funds from 

 public lands should serve as " a cement to bind the con- 

 federacy." 



P. 14 See, Life of William Henry, of Lancaster, 

 Pennsylvania. By Francis Jordan, Jr. Lancaster, 

 1910. Chapter VI. 



Simon Stevinus operated a wind-carriage as early 

 as 1600, on which Grotius, who was a passenger, made 

 an epigram. 



