Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-03-28 00:00:00, page 1

£n account of the Sitodium-altile, or the Bread
fruit Tree ; from S. Parkinfon'r journal of a
voyage to the South-Seas, in his Majesty's Jhip
the Endeavour.
^W^ HIS , tree, which yields the
t bread-fruit so often mentioned
by the voyagers to the South-
Seas, may justly be stiled the
f^ % ftaff of life to these iflanders*;
£ f ? r fr ° m " they draW m ° ft ° f
M t h e i r fgpport. This tree grows
to between thirty and forty feet high, has large
palmated leaves, of a deep grafs-gr.cn on the up
per fide, but paler on the under; and bears male
and female flowers, which come out single at the
bottom or joint of each leaf. The male flower
fades and drops off; the female, or cluster of fe
males, swells and yields the fruit, which often
weighs three or four pounds, and is as big as a
persons head when full grown. It is of a green
colour; the rind is divided into a number of poli
gonical fictions; the general shape a little longer
than round, and white on the inside, with a pretty
large core. The fruit, as well as the whole plant,
is full of a white clammy juice, which issues plen
tifully from any part that is cut: It delights in a
rich foil, and seldom grows, if ever, on the low
islands : It is avery handsome tree to look at, of
a beautiful verdure, and well eloathed with leaves,
bearing a vast quantity of fruit, which appears to
bang in bunches, and by its great weight, bends
down the branches: It bears fruit a great part of the
year, of which there are several forts, some smal
ler and others larger, which are ready to pluck at
different seasons. They generally pluck it be
fore it is ripe, using a long flick with a fork at
the end for this purpose; and, before they roaftit,
scrape all the rind off with a shell; and then,
when large, cut it in quarters; and, having pre
pared one of their ovens in the ground, with hot
stones in it, they lay the fruit upon these, having
previously put a layer of the leaves between, and
then another layer over them, and, above that,
more hot stones, covering up the whole close with
earth, and in two or three hours time, it is done;
it then appears very inviting, more so than the
fineft loaf I ever saw; the inside is very white, and
the outside a pale brown; it tastes very farinace
ous, and is, perhaps, the most agreeable and best
fuccedaneum for bread ever yet known, and in
many refpe&s, exceeds it. When thus baked, it
only keeps three or four days, another contrivance
being used for keeping it ; they take the baked
fruit, cut out all the cores, and with a stone mal
let, mash it to a pulp in a wooden trough, or tray.
This pulp they put in a hole that is dug in the ground
and lined with leaves : this is close covered up,
and left a proper time till it ferments and becomes
four, then they make it into little loaves, which
they wrap up in the leaves, and, in this state, it
is baked, and called by them Mahe, and will keep
several months, being eaten when bread fruit is
out of season, and carried to sea with them ; and
of it they form several forts of paste, such as pepe,
popoee, &c. which are used by them at their meals.
The leaves of this tree are very ufeful to wrap
fifh and other eatables in, when put into the oven
to be baked. Of the wood they build canoes,
and make several other forts of utensils; and, of
the bark of the young plants, which are raised on
purpose, they make very good cloth, which is
but little inferior to that made of Eaowte, only
somewhat more harsh and harder.
* Natives of Otaheite.
For the FENNSYLVANIAPACKET.
The following little extrail from a late publication,
exposes thefolly of these who vex themselves with
fruitlefs wifoes, or give way to groundless and un
reasonable difeontent. —Tour publifoing it will
oblige Z.
'' H/TE" of merit and integrity often censure
the dispositions of providence for fuf
fering characters they despise to run away with
advantages which, they yet know, are purchased
by such means as a high and noble spirit could
never submit to. If you refufe to pay the price,
why expert the purchase? We should confkier
this world as a great mart of commerce, where
fortune exposes to our view various commodities,
riches, ease, tranquility, fame, integrity, know
ledge. Every thing is marked at a fettled price.
Our time, our labour, our ingenuity, is so much
ready money which we are to lay out to the best
advantage. Examine, compare, chufe, reject ;
but stand to your own judgment; and do not, like
children, when you have purchased one thing, re
pine that you do not possess another which you
did not purchase. Such is the force of well re
gulated industry, that a ftead^and vigorous exer
tion of our faculties, directed to one end, will ge
nerally insure success. Would you, for instance,
be rich? DO you think that single pointworth the
facrifcing every thing else to? You may then be
rich. Thousands have become so from the low
est beginnings by toil, and patient diligence, and
^ssN^
O R,
GENERAL
V O L. 111.
MONDA Y,
attention to the minutest articles of expence and
profit. But you must give up the pleasures of lei
sure, of a vacant mind, of a free unfufpicious
temper. If you preserve your integrity, it must
be a coarse spun and vulgar honesty. Those high
and lofty notions of morals which you brought
with you from the schools must be considerably
lowered, and mixed with the baser alloy of a jea
lous and worldly-minded prudence. You must
learn to do hard, if not unjust, things ; and for
the nice embarrafTments of a delicate and ingenious
spirit, it is necessary for you to get rid of them as
faft as poflible. You must shut your heart against
the muses, and be content to feed your under
standing with plain household truths. In short,
you must not attempt to enlarge your ideas, or po
lish your taste, or refine your sentiments; but you
must keep on in one beaten track, without turn
ing aside either to the right hand or to the left.
" But I cannot submit to drudgery like this—l
feel a spirit above it." It is well: Be above it
then; only do not repine that you are not rich.
" Is knowledge the pearl of price? That too
may be purchased—by steady application, and
long solitary hours of study and reflection. Be
stow these, and you sh all be wife. “ But (fays
the man of letters) what a hardship is it that many
an illiterate fellow, who cannot construe the mot
to of the arms on his coach, shall raise a fortune
and make a figure, while I have little more than
the common conveniencies of life." Et tibi magna
fatis ! —Was it in order to raise a fortune that you
consumed the sprightly hours of youth in study and
retirement ? Was it to be rich that you grew pale
over the midnight lamp, and distilled the sweet
ness from the Greek and Roman spring? You
have then mistaken your path, and ill employed
your industry. “ What reward have I then for
all my labours ?" What reward! A large com
prehensive foul, well purged from vulgar fears,
perturbations, and prejudices; able to comprehend
and interpret the works of man—of God. A rich,
flourishing, cultivated mind, pregnant with inex
haustible stores of entertainment and reflection. A
perpetual spring of frefh ideas ; and the conscious
dignity of superior intelligence. Good heaven !
And what reward can you ask besides?
" But is it not some reproach upon the cecono
my of providence that such an one, who is a mean
dirty fellow, should have amafled wealth enough
to buy half a nation ?" Not in the least. He
made himfelf a mean dirty fellow for that very end.
He has paid his health, his conscience, his liberty,
forit; and will you envy him his bargain? Will
you hang your head and blush in his presence be
cause he oatfhines you in equipage and show? Lift
up your brow with a noble confidence, and fay
to yourfelf, I have not these things, it is true; but
it is because I have not fought, because I have
not desired them ; it is because I possess something
better, I have chosen my lot, I am content and
fatisfied."
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Philadelphia, March 28, 1774.
THE APPEAL for the Watch and
Lamp Tax comes on this day at nine o'clock;
and as the Wardens will attend from that hour to
fix o'clock in the evening, at the Court-house, itis
expected that all persons who think themselves over
rated, will attend, that the proper allowances may
be made to such as appear to be aggrieved, and the
appeal closed on that day agreeable to law.
THE NOTED HORSE
KING HEROD, a full Blood,
[t s in excei
" l l ent order,
^ffltyr ruing fix years
old, and will
c ° vtr this fea =
ff , lon, at the sub
'Briber's plan
-6 0 tation, inGlou-
I^L^te^^^f^^^aceller County,
E^te&te^^A^^^ nearly op
posite to Marcus-Hook, at four pounds the season,
or seven pounds to warrant a foal.—Herod is a
beautiful bright bay, full fifteen and a half hands
high, and as strong and neat made as any horse of
his size in America.—He was entered at 4. years old
on Hempftead Plains, for the Jockey Club Purse of
Fifty Pounds, started against three capital horses,
and beat with great ease: He started on Philadel
phia course for a purse of One Hundred Pounds,
which he also took.—He was got by Fearnought,
who is allowed by all persons that ever saw him to
be the fineft horse that ever was seen in America ;
he is also full brother to Mr. Spotfwood's Apollo,
who beat Col. Lloyd's famous mare Nancy Bywell
out of Five Hundred Guineas. It is generally al
lowed that Herod is as likely to get the belt stock
for the turf, saddle or carriage, provided he has
proper mares, as any horse on the continent. Good
pasturage, and proper care taken of all mares, at
two (hillings and fix-pence per week, by
JAMES TALMAN.
N. B. Gentlemen in Maryland or Pennsylvania,
who make choice of Herod, are desired to lend
their mares to IsaacLaWßence, at Marcus-Hook,
who will take care to fend them to said Talman.
The public (hall be furnifhed with Herod's pedi
gree in a future advertisement.
D UN L A P's
l^lllll^tf
T OBE L E T,
By the fubferiber, living in Market-street, nearly
opposite to the Indian King,
AVERY commodious Store for the dry good
business, with a large cellar underneath, floored
and (helved. Also a Coach House and Stables for
three horses, with a large hay loft above, situated
in Church Alley. For terms apply to
REBECCA KEARNY.
Greenwich TownJbip, Gloucester County,
Weft New-Jersey, March 28, 1774.
Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
on the firft day of June next, and may be entered
on the firft of October,
THAT old accustomed I NN, formerly kept
by John Comron, deceased, known by the
tavern called the Death of the Fox, situate in the
townlhip and county aferefaid, lying on the great
road leading from Gloucester, and the ferries op
posite Philadelphia, to Salem, Cumberland, Cape-
May, &c. being within ten miles of Gloucester,
and fourteen miles of Cooper's Ferry, opposite Phi
ladelphia ; containing 198 acres of land and meadow,
about 60 acres thereof cleared and within fence, the
remainder well timbered; the land for the most part
is very good, and produceth excellent crops of
grain, and very good pasture ; thereon is a two
dory stone dwelling-house with four rooms on a
floor, kitchen and other out-houses, a pump of good
water before the door, barn and stables, a very good
apple orchard, an excellent garden, with a consider
able quantity of currant bushes, off of which may
be made several barrels of wine yearly. The situa
tion is very pleasant and healthy, being within six
ty rods of an Englifli church, about three miles of
a friends meeting house, and within a quarter of a
mile of a landing, on a good navigable creek, which
makes it very convenient in getting spirits, wine,
beer, oats, or any ether necessary from Philadelphia
on the shortest notice, and at a very small expence.
At which time and place attendance will be given,
by MARY SHAW, Executrix.
JACOB SPICER, Executor.
N. B. Part of the money only will be wanted at
present.
Baltimore Town, March 12, 1774.
TO BE SO L D,
And entered upon in a month, if required,
A LOT of GROUND situate in Frederick
ftreet, near Meyer's tan-yard, and between
the two lower bridges on Jones's Falls: There is
130 feet on the front, 180 feet deep, and 115 feet
on the lower front : It is on lease for 99 years, re
newable for ever, and fubjeft to a ground-rent of
only 40s. sterling per annum ; about 16 years of the
lease are expired. On the front of the lot on Fre
derick-street is a large brick dwelling-house, where
in the fubferiber now lives, 50 feet front, 23 feet
deep, two stories high, having two parlours, a pas
sage and stair-case below, four good chambers,
three whereof have fire-places, and two good gar
rets above, well finifhed. There is also adjoining
to the said dwelling-house, a good brick kitchen
and laundry, with proper chambers for servants;
also a brick ware-house 32 feet by 25, two stories
high, and a cellar. Nearly one half of the front of
the lot is yet unimproved, there being only an old
log building that served as a gaol, and which may
be removed nt pleasure : There is an exceeding good
garden well inclofed. This lot would suit a distiller,
brewer, or sugar-baker, as there is room fufficient
for building, and a lane may be opened through
the lot from one street to another. What buildings
are on this lot, are faithfully executed ; some of
the brick walls are 18 inches thick, and none less
than 14 . inches to the ridge pole. The purchaser
need lay down but little cash, if any; good security,
with interest, will fuffice, and one-fourth of the
money will be only at four per cent per annum in
terest.—As I am determined at all events to leave
this province, and desirous of fettling all my affairs,
any person inclinable to purchase will find me very
reasonable in my demand for this lot.
DANIEL CHAMIER.
ANY PERSON inclining to purchase,
rent, or take on the (hares a plantation or
traft of land, containing 350 acres, situate on the
north fide of the Weft Branch of Sufquehannah,
near Leacomming Creek, by applying to the fub
feriber will meet with good encouragement : The
land is excellent, and a good title will be given.
Also, three plantations to be rented or given on the
(hares, in Shearman's Valley, one of which has a
good crop in the ground, and a log house thereon
near the road fide: There is plenty of rich meadow
ground and excellent water on each traft.—Like
wife for sale, two houses in Coxe's Alley, in South
wark ; the one a two dory brick house, and the
other a two story done house. For terms apply to
ALEXANDER POWER,
Near South-street Wharf.
N. B. A Billiard Table, with a good cloth and
all the conveniences, to be disposed of by said
Power; and fourteen tra&s of land, containing
300 acres each, well described without warrants,
situate in the New Purchase, to be had very low.
For CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina)
tfr^-^. The Brigantine
SEA NYMPH,
M&& JOSEPH BLEWER,
^w^ provided with genteel ac
commodations for paflengers ;
will fail with all convenient
speed. For freight or paflage apply to Joseph
Blewer, at his house in oouthwark, or on board,
at Mr. Joseph Sims's wharf, or to Daniel Robin
son, at his dore on said wharf, who has for sale,
Carolina SOAL LEATHER, NEW RICE,
PINK ROOT and TOBACCO.
T HE
ADVERT! SER.
MARC H 28th, 1774.
Philadelphia, March 28, 1774.
To the P ÜBLI C.
ON Saturday the second of April next will be
fold, at No. 20, the largest and fattert
BULLOCK that has been killed this season ; was
bred by Mr. Jacob Stokes, in the Jerseys, and will
be fold reasonable by LUDWICK ÜBER.
N. B. The Bullock will be killed on Thursday
the gift inst. at the said Über's in Spring Gardens.
F F I CE
For the SALE of REAL ESTATES,
(The first ever undertaken in this province.)
AS it would take up too much room in a news
paper, to continue to insert such estates as
have already been advertised the usual time, we beg
leave to refer to our former publications ; informa
tion concerning them, as also of several articles
which will not be advertised, may be had by apply
ing to the office. MATTHEW CLARKSON,
EDWARD BONSALL.
TO BE SOL D,
A lot, 37 and a half feet front on the north fide
of Vine-street, between Front and Second-ffreets ;
52 feet deep.
A lot, in the town of Manheim, Lancaster coun
ty, containing 2 and a half acres and 24 perches,
and is lot No. 10 in the plan of said town.
One other lot, No. 3©, near said town, contain
ing 10 acres and 4.4 perches, woodland.
Two houses in Coxe's alley, Southwark; one of
them brick, the other stone; rent for 141. a year
each ; also a vacant lot; the whole fubje& to loh
per annum ground-rent.
Two plantations in Soleberry township; Bucks
county, near Howell's Ferry, on Delaware, about 3t
miles from the city ; one contains 200 acres and 14.0
perches, is well watered, has some good meadow,
and more may be made, about 100 acres cleared,
has a good orchard and sundry buildings ; the other,
adjoining, contains 265 acres and 60 perches, has a
good orchard, stone dwelling, kitchen and barn,
too acres cleared, a quantity of meadow ground
well watered, some made and more may be made.
Terms of payment will be made easy to the pur
chaser.
A grist-mill and saw-mill, about 24.0 rods front
a landing on Naaman's Creek, Newcastle county,
with 7 acres of good meadow, and as much upland,
dwelling houses, barn, &c. excellently situated for
carrying on the flour and fcantling trade.
A commodious, genteel, well built house, on the
north fide of Market-street, between Thiid and
Fourth-streets; the lot is 25 feet front, and log
feet deep, has an outlet into Fourth-street.
Also, a lot on Fourth-street, adjoining to the
above, 23 feet 2 and a halfinches front, and 65 feet
deep, on which are several buildings.
Two thousand acres of land, warranted and sur
veyed, on the river Ohio, about half a mile below
the great Miami river, between Shronk's and Clip
per's Creeks.
A large convenient house, with stores ahd wharff,
in Water-street, between Market and Arch-streets.
Groundrents, amounting to 71. 19s. issuing out of
four lots of ground, situate on the great road from
Cooper's Ferry to Salem, in Gloucester County,
New-Jersey, about 18 miles from the Ferry.
A tra& of land containing 330 acres, situate irt
Buffaloe Township, Northumberland County ; sur
veyed and returned in the Secretary's Office,—will
be fold very cheap.
An elegant summer house (belonging to Andrew
Doz) situate in Paffyunk Township, about a mile!
and a half from the city; with 4 acres and 56 perches
of ground in excellent grass, divided into two fields
under good fence, a barrack that will hold 12 tons
of hay, a well of good water, &c.
A genteel country house, with a good barn, sta
bles, kitchen, and 17 acres of land, pleasantly si
tuated , about 3 miles from this city. The build
ings are all new and good ; the fruit trees in the
garden and orchard of the best kind, and now just
beginning to bear in plenty. The purchaser ma,
have any time he pleases for payment of the whole,
or any part of the purchase money.
A three ftor, brick house, on the east fide of
Fourth-street, between Market and Arch-streets,
with a two story brick kitchen; pays 81. 2s. pet
annum ground rent, and is insured ; the lot is 17
feet front by 65 feet in depth.
To be LET on GROUND-RENT.
Several lots on Spruce-street, between Fifth and
Sixth streets.
A lot on the north fide of Market-street, between
Seventh and Eighth-streets, being 33 feet 9 inches
front, and 14.6 feet in depth to an alley.
WANTS A PLA CE,
A WET NURSE with a good breast of
milk, who can be well recommended. En
quire of the Printer.
A CLERK and an APPRENTICE
'A is wanted, in a Dry-Good Store in Philadel
phia : None need apply in either character but
such as can be well recommended. Enquire of
the Printer.
A BILLIARD TABLE
TO BE SO L D.
Enquire cf the Printer.
T O -MO R R O W,
At ONE O'CLOCK, at
J 0 H ,N H A R T's
VENDUE-STOR E,
At the cornerof South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a large and neat
assortment of
MERCHANDIZ E.
NUMB. 127.