562 APPENDIX. — NOTE N. 



Peter Collinson purchased and forwarded to the Secretary a case of books, a list 

 of which is annexed, viz.: 



"The Gentleman Instructed; Puftendorf's Law of Nature and Nations ; The 

 Spectator, 8 vol. ; The Turlcish Spy, 8 vol. ; Tournefort's Voyages, 2 vol. ; Whit- 

 sou's Theory ; Addison's Travels ; Barclay's Apology ; Locke on Education ; Reli- 

 gion of Nature Delineated; Gorden Geography; Grammar; Sherlock on Death; 

 Whitson"s Astr". Principles ; Mondrall's Travels ; Dyches' Dictionary ; Tull's 

 Husbandry; Blackmoore on y<" Creation; Independent Whig, 3 vol.; Wood's In- 

 stitute on v"-' Laws of England; Milton's Paradise Lost and Regained, 2 vol.; 

 Putlendorf 's Hist, of Sweden ; Rawligh's Hist, of ye World, 2 voL ; The Life of the 

 Duke of Marlborough, 2 vol." 



When the book.s were received, the Secretary called a special meeting of the 

 Company to examine them; and thus began, nearly one hundred and twenty 

 years ago, this library, which has gradually aud steadily increased to the present 

 time. It was the first in the colonj- outside of Philadelphia, aud when we con- 

 sider the condition of the country at that early day — the scarcity of money — the 

 delay and difficulty in obtaining books from the other side of the Atlantic, it 

 must be admitted that this effort to establish a permanent institution for the 

 intellectual improvement of themselves and their posterity was in the highest 

 degree creditable to its founders. 



They continued to receive their supply of books directly from London until 

 about the jear 1760, when they were furnished for a considerable period by 

 David Hall, a bookseller in Philadelphia. In many cases the desired works could 

 not be found in the city, and were procured in England by him for the Company. 



