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moting Roads and Inland Navigation in the Middle States. Ex- 

 amination of the Connecticut claim to lands within the charter 

 bounds of Pennsylvania, with a large Appendix, containing copies 

 of charters, royal grants and other valuable documents ; a collec- 

 tion of papers, drawn up at the request of Judge Sullivan, and 

 transmitted to him by the Secretary of State, Timothy Pickering, 

 Esq., for discovering and ascertaining the true river St. Croix. 



An account of General Bouquet's expedition to Muskingum, 

 with many papers relating to the Illinois, and the ancient boun- 

 daries between the English and French tribes. 



To the above were to be added Dr. Smith's large share (which 

 would be distinguished as far as possible from the share of his 

 coadjutors) of tracts published in Colonel Bradford's American 

 Magazine of 1757-58, as follows: 



6. The Planter, in twenty-two numbers. 



7. The Antigallican, in seven numbers. 



8. The Watchman, in eight numbers.* 



9. An account of the very arbitrary proceedings of the Assem- 

 blies, or Legislatures, of Pennsylvania, of which we have men- 

 tioned in our Vol. I.,t which obliged Dr. Smith to undertake a 

 voyage to Great Britain, and which would contain many interest- 

 ing papers, supported by the authority of some of the greatest 

 characters that ever adorned the bar or the bench in the law 

 courts of England, namely: Pratt and Yorke, then Attorney and 

 Solicitor General, both of them afterwards Lord High Chancellors 

 of the nation.l 



The publication was begun in an elegant way by Mr. ?vlaxwell, 

 a well-known publisher of Philadelphia at the beginning of this 

 century, of whom Dr. Smith says, in a prefatory note dated Falls 

 of Schuylkill, August 2, 1802 : 



I have conveyed the copyright on easy terms, induced thereto on my 

 part by his attention to the correctness of his press, amidst the large 

 numbers of hands which he is obliged to employ, as well as by his at- 

 tention to myself, in attending me at my house in the country; to aid 



* The " Hermit," which was first published in this American Magazine, is printed 

 in the concluding part of the first volume of Dr. Smith's Works, published by 

 Maxwell, in 1803. 



f Pages 167-187; 203-209. 



J By the names of Lord Camden and Lord Morden. 



