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tisements, Freeman's Journal, Nov. 12 and Nov. 19, 



1783- 



P. 89 Thomas Spence Duche. See, Scharf, Hist, 

 of Philadelphia, II, 1040. 



P. 93 Arbustum Americanum : the American 

 Grove, or, an Alphabetical Catalogue of Forest Trees 

 and Shrubs, natives of the American United States. 

 I2mo. 169 pp. A very rare book. Cf. Harshberger, 

 Botanists of Philadelphia and their Work. Philadel- 

 phia, 1899, p. 80. 



P. 95 George Glentworth, of Philadelphia, 1735- 

 1792; after 1777 Senior Surgeon of the Continental 

 Army, and Director General of Hospitals for the mid- 

 dle division. 



P. 96 Letters from an American Farmer ; describ- 

 ing certain Provincial Situations, manners, and cus- 

 toms, not generally known, and conveying some idea 

 of the late and present Interior circumstances of the 

 British Colonies in North America. 



Written for the Information of a Friend in England. 

 By J. Hector St. John [de Crevecoeur] A Farmer in 

 Pennsylvania. 



London, 1782. 



The Freeman's Journal (Philadelphia) for Dec. 24, 

 1783, contains an advertisement dated ' New York, 

 Dec. 1783 ' and signed 



" St. John 



Consul for the States of New York, 

 New Jersey, and Connecticut." 



P. 98 Kalm's Reiscn, Gottingen edition, 1757, II, 

 p. 405. John Reinhold Forster's English translation, 

 2nd ed. London, 1772, I, 206-207. 



