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By the Prefident of the United
States.
Whereas bv the act entitled “ Au
act, making provision for the disposal
ot 1 ublic Lands, situated between the
v-nited States Military Tract and the
Connecticut Reserve, and other pur
poses, ’ it was enacted, that for the dis
posal ol the lands of the United States,
situated between the United States Mi
litary Tract and the Connecticut Re
rerve, a Land-office1 should he establish
ed at such place ns the President of the
United States might direct. And it was
further enacted, that the Lands afore
said, with the exception of certain tracts
therein excepted, be offered for sale to
the highest bidder, at the place afore
said, on such day or days, as shall by a
Publick Proclamation of the President
of the United States be designated for
that purpose, in tracts ot the same size,
and on the same terms and conditions,
as are provided for the lands North of
the River Ohio, and above the Mouth
of Kentucky River.
W here fore, I, Thomas Jefferson,
President of the United States, in con
formity with the provisions of the act
before recited, do hereby declare and
make known, that sales shall be held at
Canton, in the State oi Ohio, lor the
disposal oi the above mentioned lands,
to commence on the second Monday oi
?*Iay, one thousand eight hundred and
eight, and continue for and during the
xix following weeks.
Given under my hand the nineteenth
day ot November, one thousand
eight hundred and sttoi.
(Signed) TII: JEVFEKSON.
A S U R V E Y~
OF THF.
Wisdom of God in the Creation ;
OR,
A Compendium of Natural PhthsOj hr.
By John Wes lev, a. m.
f Thefe a re thv glorious works Pa*enf or Good, !
Almighty ! Thine this univerla tranm
Thu w in'* 'ri)U'j fair ! Thyftlf how wond’rous I
then !’*
Wdliam Hamilton, of Lancaftcr, Pennfylva '
nil, having flued piopofas for publishing
Wesley’s Philosophy the Subfcrioe;, who
lias made arrangements w th Irm to encourage
and promote it„ publication and circulation in
the Weftcrn Country, and who will receive
fuhnjription* for the fame, refpedl*uUy nvites
the attention of the puhl'tk to a work fo emi
nently calculated to open, enlighten and in*
fere, the uoduftaiuling, to ameliorate the
h(&r>> and to awaken and exalt the foul, by
nuking man acquainted with himfelf, with the
| work of creation lubjttfed to hi* dominion,
and with The Great First Cause of all
things.
The following is a very concife fketch cf fome
of the fubittfts on which it treats
A briei history of Natural Philoso
phy as a science, and the method of phi
losophizing among the Hebrews, Egyp
tians and Greeks.
Ot the structure of the human body
anatomically arranged, with a particular
description of the different parts of which
it is composed ; of respiration, chvlifi
c at ion, nutrition, the five senses, hunger,
thirst and sleep ; ol local, voluntary and j
involuntary motion ; and of the stature
and age of man.
Ot the remote causes of diseases ; of
fevers, the way to preserve health ; of
lite and death; of the soul and origin of
man ; of imagination, memorv, the un
derstanding, will and affections ; of the
generation of the bodv.
Oi beasts, birds, fish,reptiles Sc insects.
Oi trees and plants.
Oi metals, minerals and fossils.
Of earth, water, fix', air and meteors.
Ot the system of the world.
Ot the properties til it are common to
all bodies ; and of those tilings wherein
natural bodies differ.
Of the First Cause.
Ot the relative perfection of bodies.
General view of the gradual progres
sion of beings.
Ot the union of souls to organized bodies.
Ot universal gravity, and centripetal
and centrifugal force.
Of the discoveries of the ancients in
mathematics.
Of the improvement cf knowledge by
re velalion.
General reflections, shewing the pc
culiar advantages which result from a
proper survey of the wisdom of God in
die creation.
Lxtrcu l Jrom the Proposals.
“Tit c ti t&'. r of the late learned and pioue
Mi Wifiey i" fo weP kn wn, as to render any
c imrr.ent 'otally unnec' ffary It may he pro
p r however* to o! teive. that in the devotion
of a whole life ’o the good of mank'Od, the
work tor which wre now' folicit the public pa
t oria, c, was among his mefi intereflirg ; nd
vain Me la^ou s It is indeed a library in i>*
felt,—comprehenfively embracing nearly the
whole h^ftory ot animated nature, and difplay*
irig, in a ftvl peculiarly inftructive and ag'ee-'
Me, the wufitom the power, and the goodeefs I
O' Omnipotence ” i
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