Penfyhaniay Philadelphia, 55 



The town is not enclofed, and has no 

 other cuftom-houfe than the great one for 

 the fhips. 



The governor of the whole province lives 

 here ; and though he is nominated by the 

 heirs of Pen, yet he cannot take that office 

 without being confirmed by the king of 

 England. 



The quakers of almoft all parts of North- 

 America, have their great aflembly here 

 once a year. 



In the year 1743, a fociety for the ad^ 

 vancement of the fciences was ereded here. 

 Its objedts would have been the curiofities 

 of the three kingdoms of nature, mathe- 

 maticks, phyfick, chemiftry, oeconomy, and 

 manufactures. But the war, which enfued 

 immediately, flopped all defigns of this na- 

 ture, and fince that time, nothing has been 

 done towards eftablifhing any thing of this 

 kind. 



The declination of the needle was here 

 obferved on the thirtieth of OSlober 1750, 

 old ftyle, to be five deg. and forty-five 

 min. wefl. It was examined by the new 

 meridian, which was drawn at Philadelphia 

 in the autumn of the fame year, and ex* 

 tended a mile in length. By experience it 

 appears, that this declination lelTens about 

 a degree in twenty years time. 



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