ESSAYS AND TRACTS, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL, BEFORE THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION, .

AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION AND
GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA,

VOLUME IV.

ESSAYS AND TRACTS, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL, BEFORE THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION, CONTINUEd.

VOLUME V.

POLITICAL PAPERS, DURING AND AFTER THE AMERICAN REVO-
LUTION,

LETTERS AND PAPERS ON ELECTRICITY,

APPENDIX.

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523

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105

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171

I. Watson's Abstract of Franklin's Electrical Experiments and

Observations,

II. Letter from the Abbé Nollet to Benjamin Franklin,
III. Speech of the Earl of Macclesfield, President of the Royal
Society, on the Occasion of awarding to Franklin a Medal
for his Discoveries in Electricity,

IV. Letter from John Baptist Beccaria to Benjamin Franklin,
V. Letter from Professor Thorbern Bergman, of Upsal, to Ben-

VI. Letter from M. Dubourg to M. de Lor. Parallel between

the Theories of Franklin and Nollet,

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493

499

505

513

514

VOLUME VI.

LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS.

VOLUME VII.

CORRESPONDENCE.

PART FIRST; COMPRISING PRIVATE LETTERS TO THE TIME OF

THE AUTHOR'S FIRST MISSION TO ENGLAND. 1725-1757. 1

PART SECOND; COMPRISING LETTERS, PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL,

FROM THE TIME OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST MISSION TO ENG-

LAND, TO THE BEGINNING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

1757-1775.

147

VOLUME VIII.

CORRESPONDENCE.

PART SECOND, CONTINUED,

PART THIRD; COMPRISING LETTERS, PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL,

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, TO

THE END OF THE AUTHOR'S MISSION TO FRANCE. 1775-

1785.

APPENDIX.

1

151

I. A Fragment of Polybius; from his Treatise on the Athenian

Government,

543

547

II. Memoir of Sir John Dalrymple; or a Project of Lord Roch-
ford to prevent the War,

VOLUME X.

CORRESPONDENCE.

1.

215

427

PART THIRD, CONTINUED,

PART FOURTH; COMPRISING PRIVATE LETTERS FROM THE
TERMINATION OF THE AUTHOR'S MISSION TO FRANCE, TO
THE END OF HIS LIFE.

1785-1790.

I. List of the Author's Writings, chronologically arranged,

II. Letters written by Franklin to Individuals and Public Bodies,

III. Letters addressed to Franklin by various Persons,

IV. Miscellaneous Letters,

V. General Index,

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464

476

481

485

12. Profile of the Pennsylvania Chimney and Fireplace.--Stafford

shire Fireplace. (Plate VI.)

13. Magical Squares, (Plate VII.)

Frontispiece, V.

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372

384

442

VI.

46

50

102

14. Magical Circle, (Plate VIII.)

15. Waterspout, (Plate IX.)

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156

XIV.)

16. Armonica, (Plate X.)

17. Aurora Borealis, &c., (Plate XI.)

18. Improvements in Navigation, (Plate XII.)

19. Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, exhibiting the Course of the Gulf Stream, &c., (Plate XIII.)

20. Illustrating the Causes and Cure of Smoky Chimneys, (Plate

21. Stove for burning Pit-coal, (Plate XV.)

22. Portrait of Mrs. Franklin,

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560

Frontispiece, VII.

VOL. I.