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PROPOSALS,
for Publishing by Subscription,
♦ DAVID M'- KEEIIAN, Bokscller,
Pittsburgh,
A JOURNAL
V OF THE.
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS
OF A
CORPS OF DISCOVERT,
Under the command of Captain Lewis
and Captain Clark ol the Army of the
United States,
From the Mouth of the River Missouri,
through the Interior Parts of North
America, to the Pacific Ocean,
During the years 1804, 1805, and 1S0G.
CONTAINING
An authentic Relation of the most inter
esting Transactions during the Expe
dition ; 1
A description of the Country—and an
Account of its Inhabitants, Soil, Cli
mate, Curiosities and Vegetable and
Animal Productions.
By PATRICK GASS,
• )ixc of the persons employed in the ex
pedition.
vViTII GEOGRAPHICAL AND EXPr A
NATOUY NOTES,
r>Y TIfF. PUni.ISHKR.
To recommend the correctness of this
work, the publisher begs leave to state,
tnat at the different resting places dur
ing the expedition, the several journals
Here brought together, compared, cor
seted, 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,
-it has undertaken and completed the
.aborious tasti of arranging and tran
scribing the whole of it. To this he will
ad 1, the following extract from a certi
licate delivered bv Captain Lewis to
Air. Gass, dated St. Louis, 10th Octo
ber, 1803.
“ As a tribute justly due to the merits
of the said Patrisk Gass, I with cheer
.*mt ss declare, that the ample support,
which he gave me, under everv difficul
ty i the manly firmness, which he evinc
ed on every occasion ; and the fortitude
wyth which he bore the fatigues and pain
ful sufferings incident to that long vo\
age, intitles hi in to mv highest con fi
dence and sincere thanks, while it emi
nently recommends him to the considcr
akion and respect ol ids fellow citizens.”
CONDITIONS.
I. This work will be published in cue
volume duodecimo ; and is expected to
contain near 300 pages.
II. The price to subscribers will be
one dollar, handsomely bound in boards.
. 03°. The work will be ready for de
livery in two months from this date.
March 23d, 1807.
(J3° Subscriptions rvill be received at
the Office cj the Wheeling Repository.
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING, BY SUBSCRIPTION,
A TALE OF TRUTH;
Being It HISTORY of the LIFE and
SUFFERINGS of
CHARLOTTE TEMPLE..
By Mrs. ROWSON.
“ THIS is a hiftoiy of real diftrefs Charlotte
by the artifice of a teacher, recommended to a
lchoo! from b imani y rather than a conviction
of her integrity, or the.rrgularity of her former
conduct, 13 enticed from her governed and ac
companies a young Officer to Americr—Hie
marriage ceiem-.ny, if not forpotten, is poll
poned, and Charlotte dies a martyr to the in
conttanev o! her lover and treachery of his
fLIC j1 r The r,'ultion,i artlefs and a fleeting,
the dcferiptioua natural and pathetic.’
EXTRACT FROM TIIE PREFACE.
For the perufal of the young and thouchtlefs
of the lair lex, this Tale of Tiuih is dr fumed .
and f cou d wifi) my fair leaders to cordider it
as not merely the efTnfion of . fancy, but as a
ret.ity The cucumflances on which 1 have
founded th«r. Novel, were related to me Ibme
little tune fince by an old Lady who had orr
lonal.y known Charlotte, though flie concealed
the real names of the characters, and like wife
the place where the unfortunate feenes were
acted—yet ae it was impossible to offer a rela
tion to the public in fuch an imperfeft ftate,
I have thrown over the whole a slight veil of
hetion, and fubftituted names and places accor
ri ng to my own fancy The principal character*
m this little tale are now consigned to the h'ent
tomb it can therefore hurt the feelings of no
one—and may, I flatter myfelf, be of fervicc
to fomc who are fo unfortunate as to have
neuher friends to advife, nor undetftanding to
d're« them, through the various and unri
pe1’ evils that attend a young and unproteit
cd woman in her full entrance into life.
CONDITIONS
i- The Work will be comprifed in one
duodecimo Volume of about ijo Pages.
a It will be handfomety printed on new
I ct?eredn<i fiDC r>i4pe,~'aDd nea*ly Bound and
3* Tbe price lo Subfcriberi will be ♦? Cecil.
l° be PV'J on delivery of the Work
4- 4 °f lbe Fubfcribers cam 2 and place
vvo7k!dcnre win be 3ddcd 38 p3lron8 of thc
r, kr allo*a"cc be made to thofe who
fubfenbe fo a Qointity. .
Waihington, December 15 1809.’
♦ JU ^bfcr;&io08 to lhc abovc received at
this rrmting Office
PROPOS A LS r
By G.K. Harper, Printer, Chambersbur*,
FOR PUBLISHING, BY SUBSCRIPTION,
FORTY-EIGHT SELECT
SERMONS,
Preached by that eminent and faithful
Servant of Jesus Christ,
Mr. JOHN WE L S H,
Some time Minifter of the Gofpel at Air,
.Scotland.
rf Lhem were Slivered as his
FAREVt I LL 6EKMONS, immediately be
tore he was apprehended for the caufe and
Golpel of Jefus Chrift. *
TO V/H ICH WILL BE PREEIXED,
THE HISTORY OF HIS
Life and Sufferings,
With Lome I rophetic Letters,
extract from the preface.
CHRISTIAN READER,
Here in ptefcnted to your view a few Ssr*
mons, being part of the labours of that great
man ot God, Mr. John Wclfh—one who had
more than an ordinary meafuie of the Spirit of
God given to him, evidently known to many,
who were fo happily blefied as to be under bis
mmiftry, and enjoy tcllowftiip and communion
wiMi him in the ordinances of th« Gofpd—of
wi.ir h there is an account of many extraordina
ry things m the hiftory of his life Vv fixed to
this book. The fetious reader will find they
a e not delivered in a neat and fine drels, to
pleale the fine tafic of the age we now live in,
who love more to hear a fermon neatly d-eGed
m a fine ftyle of curious learning, than to hear
an awakening fermon concerning our own per
jonal im» and the fins of the generation we live
in ; but the following are plain to the mraneft
capacity, “ rot in the enticing words of mao’s
wtf .om, but in the derr.oriftration of the Spirit
and of power.”
CONDITIONS
i. This woi k will be comprised in one hand*
.ome octavo volume, containing between fix
and feven hundred pages, durab^ and hand*
fomt-lv bound and lettered.
1 The typography (hall be correAl'y execu
ted in ihe modern ftyle, on a good paper, and
with new letter.
3. The price to Subscribers will be one dollar
and fifty cent!—-To non fubferibets it will be
two-dollars
4. A lift of the Subfcriber's names with tbeir
places of refidcnce, will be added as patrons-**
the wo- k
#**^ubferiptinns to the above received^ai
the Office of the Wheeling Rcpofitary*