lyglj 295 [Phillips. 



In Taylor's Almanac for 1733 we find the following poem : 

 " Full Forty years have now their changes made, 

 Since the foundation of this town was laid. 

 When Jove and Saturn were in Leo joined ; 

 They saw the survey of the place design'd; 

 Swift were those planets, and the world will own 

 Swift was the progress of the rising town. 

 The Lion is an active Regal sign, 

 And Sol beheld the two superiors join, 

 A city built with such Propitious rays. 

 Will stand to see old Walls and happy days." 



In Taylor's Almanac for 1737 occurs the following ; 



Take half an Ounce of Rainbows fil'd to dust. 



Three grains of Party- Papers true and just, 



One grain of Satyrs, candid, just and fit, 



Without Illnature, cant or dev'lsh wit ; 



Mix these with Art to make the sov'reign Pills, 



That cured Train of Epidemic Ills. 

 In the MSS is written in an old hand on the page for December, " The 

 7th near 11 at night a shock of an earthquake generally felt through the 

 Province but no damage as I've heard of." 



In Taylor's Almanac for 1738 occurs the following poetical description 

 of the Province of Pennsylvania : 



" In this new world, so lately here begun, 

 A thousand miles our King's dominions run ; 

 About the centre lies well known to fame 

 The Silvan shade that bears the Land Lord's name. 

 A fruitful soil with gifts of nature blest. 

 Improved by culture swifter than the rest. 

 Like Palestine a land of good repute. 

 For wheat and barley, honey, milk and fruit. 

 Here not in vain the Master's skilful hand 

 Manures the glebe, and cultivates the land : 

 The ground producing ev'ry sort of grain, 

 Pomarious profit, and the hortensian gain. 

 Except not Rice, some by experience know. 

 That useful grain will here in plenty grow. 

 . In wool and flax the Province will be made 

 Too rich in time to call for foreign aid. 

 And useful Hemp, its service to declare. 

 Four Clerks would fail, Accountants ail despair. 

 Its magic-virtue in a skillful hand, 

 Preserves the substance of a prudent land ; 

 Who can at large its various uses tell? 

 What Clouds of Canvass on the Ocean swell ! 

 Th' extensive use of Cordage to declare. 

 The Labour might with Pliny's works compare. 

 I only touch the profits of the field ; 

 And leave the Task for stronger hands to wield. 

 And now my wild unbounded fancy roves 



In that vast region of the trees and groves; 

 But, lest therein, I scarce pretend to know 



What sorts of Oak in this great forest grow; 



As many kinds, some say, a=! metals ly 

 Beneath the ground, or Planets in the sky, 



