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PROPOSALS,
For Publishing by Subscription,
By DAVID M‘KEEIIAN,Bokseller,
Pit' P'rgh,
A JOURNAL
• or TFT F.
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS
OF A
CORPS OF DISCOVERT,\
Under the command of Captain Lewis
anti Captain Clark ol the Army of the
United States,
Pro>n the Mouth of the River Missouri,
through the Interior Parts of North
America, to the Pacific Ocean,
During the years 1804, 1805, and 1806.
CONTAINING
An authentic Relation of the most inter
esting Transactions during the Expe
dition ; Jk'.
d description the Country—and an
Account of its Inhabitants, Soil, Cli
mate, Curiosities and Vegetable and
Animal Productions.
By PATRICK GASS,
One ot the persons employed in the ex
pedition.
'VITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND EXPLA
NATORY NOTES,
BY THE PUBLISHER.
1 o recommend the correctness of this
work, the publisher begs leave to state,
that at the different resting places dur
ing the expedition, the several journals
were brought together, compared, cor
rected, and the blanks, which had been
unavoidably left, filled up ; and that,
since he became the proprietor, in order
to render it more useful and acceptable,
he has undertaken and completed the
laborious task of arranging and tran
scribing the whole of it. To this he will
add, the follow ing extract from a certi
ficate delivered bv Captain Lewis to
Mr. Gass, dated St. Louis, 10th Octo
ber, 1806.
“ » tribute justly due to the merits
of the said Patrisk Ohss, I w ith cheer
fulness declare, that the ample support,
which he gave me, under every difficul
ty ; the manly firmness, which he evinc
ed on every occasion ; and the fortitude
with which he bore the fatigues and pain
ful sufferings incident to that long voy
age, intitles him to my highest confi
dence and sincere thanks, w'hile it emi
nently recommends him to the consider
ation and respect of his fellow citizens.”
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CONDITIONS.
This work will be published in one
volume duodecimo ; and is expected to
contain near 300 pages.
II. The price to subscribers will be
one dollar, handsomely bound in boards.
GGP* The work will be ready for de
livery in two months from this date.
March 23d, 1807.
GGP Subscriptions will be received at
the Office of the Wheeling Repository,
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING, BY SUBSCRIPTION,
A TALE CF TRUTH;
Being a HISTORY of the LIRE anil
SUFFERINGS of
CHARLOT I E TEMPLE.
By Mrs. ROIVSON.
“THIS i<> a hiftoiyot real diftref3 Charlotte
by ilie* uuhee of a teacher, recommended to a
fchool from h mani'y rather than a conviction
ot her integrity, or the regularity of her former
conduct, is enticed from her governels and ac*
compmies a young Officer to America_The
marriage cetcraony, if not loigotten, is p(,ft
poned, and Charlotte dies a martyr to the in
| conftancy nt her lover and treachery of his
1 riend The fituations are artlefa and affecting,
the dcfcription6 natural and pathetic.'
EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE.
For the perufal of the young and thouehtlefs
of the fair h x, this T ile of Truth is dt fi. ned ,
and 1 cou d wilh my fair leaders to confider it
as not merely the tffnfion of fancy, hut as a
reality. The circumftances on which I have
founded this Novel, w~re related to me fome
little time fine-- by an old I.adv who had ptr
Tonally known Charlotte, though ftie concealed
ihe real nimti of the characters, and liktwife
th place where the unfortunate frenes wtre
act;d—vet as it was impofsible to offer a rela
tion to the public in fuch an imperfect ftate,
I hsve thrown over the whole a slight veil of
fiction, and fuhftttutcd names and places accor
ding to my own fancy The principal characters
in this 'ittle tale are now configned to the filent
tomb—it Ci.n therefore hur' the feelings of no
one—and may, I flatter myfelf. be of fervice
to fome who are fo unfortunate as to have
neithrr friends to advife, nor undetftan ling to
diretf th-m, through the various and unex
pected evils 'hat attend a young and unproteft
ed woman in her firft entrance into life.
CONDITIONS
i The WVk will he comprifed in one
Duodecimo Volume of about 150 Pages.
i It will be handfomcly printed 00 new
Type, and fine Paper—and neatly Bound and
Lettered.
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3. The price to Subfcriber« wHT be 75 Centt*
to be paid on delivery of the Work.
4- A lift-of the Subfcribers nam 2 and place
of residence will be added as patrons of the
woik
r AP aI!°wance ^ made to thofe who*
fubicnhe fo a Quantity.
W fh'r.pton, December 15 1809.
ft"4-T Subfcriptions to the above received at
thi* Printing Office
PROPO sA L S
By G.K.Harper,Printer,Chambersburg,
FOR PUBLISHING, BY SUBSCRIPTION,
FORTY-EIGHT SELECT
SERMONS,
Preached by that eminent and faithful
Servant of Jesus Christ,
Mr. JOHN WELSH,
Some time Miriifter of the Gufpel at Air,
Scotland.
The two laft of them were delivered as hi«
FAREWELL SERMONS, immediately be*
fore he was apprehended for the caufc and
Gofpel of Jetus Chrift.
TO WHICH WILL B E PREEIXBl),
THF. HISTORY OF HIS
Life and Sufferings,
With feme Prophetic Letters.
EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE.
CHRISTIAN READER,
Here is pi dented to your view a few Ser
mons, being part of the labours of that great
man ot God, Mr. John Wclfti— one who had
more than an drdinary mesfure of the Spirit of
God given to him, evidently known to many,
who were fo happily blefsed as to be under hia
miniftry, and tnjoy tellowihip and communion
wuh him in the ordinances of the Gofprl_of
which there is an account of many t xTaordina.
ry things in the hiftory of his life pn fixed to
this book. The ferious reader will find they
a>e not delivered in a neat and fine drtfs, to
pleafe the fine tafie of the age we now live in,
who love more ?o hear a fermon neatly d't (Ted
m a fine ftyle of curious learning, than to hear
an awakening fermon concerning our own per
fnnal fins and the (ins of the generatfon we live
in ; but the following are plain to the meaneft
capacity, “ nor in the enticing words of man’s
wif lom, but in the demonftration of the Spirit
and of power”
CONDITIONS
i. This woik will be compiled in one hand,
fome octavo volume, containing between fix
and feven hundred pages, durab^ and hand
fomelv bound and lettered.
a The typography (hall he corretfly execu
ted in the modern ftyle, on a good paper, and
with new letter.
3 The price to Subfcribers will be one dollar
and fil'y centi—To non fubferibers it will be
two dollars
4- A lift of the Subfcriber's names with their
p.aces of ri Gdence, will be added as patrons of
the wo k
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