he foreground is a plan of fortifications with cannon
balls. In the background are cannon with battle-axes and pikes. A gorget
with "Liberty" upon it is hanging on a tree, and beneath it the motto

"Juvat in Sylvis habitare."

The magazine had numerous illustrations: a portrait of Goldsmith, plans
of a threshing machine, an electrical machine, Donaldson's dredging
machine, etc., etc.

Francis Hopkinson and Witherspoon were among the earliest contributors.
William Smith and Provost Ewing assisted in later numbers. Benjamin Rush
and Sergeant and Hutchinson imparted to Paine, in their walks in State
House yard the suggestions of "Common Sense," the pamphlet which "had a
greater run than any other ever published in our country," and which, as
Elkanah Watson said, "passed through the continent like an electric
spark. It everywhere flashed conviction, and aroused a determined
spirit, which resulted in the Declaration of Independence, upon the 4th
of July ensuing. The name of Paine was precious to every Whig heart, and
had resounded throughout Europe."

A department of the _Pennsylvania Magazine_, called "Monthly
Intelligence," reported the progress of the war, and furnished
engravings of the battles, and of General Gage's lines. It was the first
illustrated magazine published in the city. It was also the first that
made more than one volume. The second volume began in January, 1776,
and ended in July, 1776. The last number contained the Declaration of
Independence.

Phillis Wheatley, negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, and
daughter of an African slave, published her only volume of poems,
dedicated to the Countess of Huntingdon, in 1773. The best, if the word
may be applied to such performances, of her occasional poems, published
after 1773, and which have never been collected into a volume, was a
poem "To his Excellency Gen. Washington," in the _Pennsylvania Magazine_
of April, 1776:

"Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,
Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write."

The poem was dated October 26, 1775, and sent with a letter to
Washington, who replied (Feb. 2, 1776):

"However undeserving I may be of such encomium and panegyric, the style
and manner exhibit a striking proof of your poetical talents; in honor
of which, and as a tribute justly due to you, I would have published the
poem had I not been apprehensive that while I only meant to give the
world this new instance of your genius,