NOTES 405 



It should not be forgotten that Johann Reinhold 

 Forster was for many years active in making America 

 known in Germany. See, Meusel's Lc.vikon der win 

 Jahr 1750 bis 1800 verstorbcnen Teutscheii Schrift- 

 steller. 



P. 36 For some account of John Jacob Faesch, and 

 the colonial iron industry of New Jersey, see Edmund 

 J. Halsey, History of Morris County, New Jersey. 

 New York, 1882, ch. VII-IX ; cf. also American Ma- 

 chinist, XXV, 409; XXVII, 240, 354, 451. 



P. 42 " The flying machine sets out from Powles- 

 hook, opposite to New York, for Philadelphia, every 

 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning in summer ; 

 from November first, to May first, it performs the jour- 

 ney only twice a-week, and sets out on Mondays and 

 Thursdays. The waggons from Philadelphia set off 

 the same mornings. As the Machines set off from 

 Powles-hook early in the morning, passengers should 

 cross the ferry the evening before. The price for each 

 passenger is twenty shillings currency." 



Patrick McRobert, Tour through Part of the North- 

 ern Provinces of America &c. Edinburgh, 1776, p. 56. 



P. 46 Richard Peters, 1748-1828, first President of 

 the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society &c. 



P. 56 Dictionnaire Philosophique, art. Eglisc (vol. 

 39, pp. 500 ff., ed. Kehl). 



P. 61 See, An Account of the Neiv-inventcd Penn- 

 sylvania Fire-Places &c. Philadelphia. Printed and 

 sold by B. Franklin. 1744. Sparks, VI, 34-64; 

 Smyth, I, 127-129. 



P. 65 Timothy Matlack, 1730-1829. 



