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from the French and German. And though the former are 

 not equal to the first class of British productions, and the 

 moral tendency of some of the latter has been questioned; 

 yet they form one step in that literary progress of our country 

 -which is more particularly detailed in another place. 



In enumerating the peculiar advantages under which poetic 

 compositions -were presented during the last age, it would be 

 improper to omit taking notice of the illustration of poetic 

 pictures by elegant engravings, and other appropriate orna- 

 ments. The Shakspeare Gallery, the plates for illustrating 

 Milton, Thomson, and many other distinguished poets, had 

 certainly no equals in any preceding age. 



NOTES ON CHAPTER XXII. 



Newspapers in the United States, p. 251. 



AFTER taking much pains to ascertain the number of news- 

 papers printed in the United States, the author is enabled to 

 present the following list. He dares not assert that it is ac- 

 curate or complete; but it is as nearly so as he could make it. 

 It is proper to observe, however, that, as the materials which 

 form it were collected at different times in the years 1801 and 

 1802, it is not improbable that some of the papers mentioned 

 have been since discontinued, and others established. The 

 real number may certainly, however, be considered, in the 

 gross, as rather greater than smaller than that which is here 

 presented. 



In New-Hampshire there are ten newspapers; viz. three 

 at Portsmouth; one at Concord; one_at Dover; one at Gil- 

 mantown; one at Amherst ; one at Keene; one at Walpole ; 

 and one at Dartmouth. They are all published once a week. 



In Massachusetts there are twenty-six newspapers; viz. 

 five in Boston, each published twice a week : two in Salem; 

 two in Newbury port; two in Worcester ; one in Brookfidd; 

 one in Springfield ; one in Northampton ; one in Piiisjield; 

 one in Dedham ; one in Stockbridge ; one in New- Bedford; 

 one in Haverhill; one in Leominster ; three in Portland; 



