tten to effect loans
for the American cause.

_1782. On the Theory of the Earth._

The best of Franklin's papers on geology.

_1782. Letter purporting to emanate from a petty German Prince
and to be addressed to his officer in Command in America._

_1785. On the Causes and Cure of Smoky Chimneys._

_1786. Retort Courteous._

_Sending Felons to America._

Answers to the British clamor for the payment of American
debts.

1789. _Address to the Public from the Pennsylvania Society for
Promoting Abolition of Slavery._

1789. _An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania,
viz. The Court of the Press._

1790. _Martin's Account of his Consulship._

A parody of a pro-slavery speech in Congress.

1791. _Autobiography._

The first edition.

1818. _Bagatelles._

The Bagatelles were first published in 1818 in William
Temple Franklin's edition of his grandfather's works. The
following are the most famous of these essays and the
dates when they were written:

1774? _A Parable Against Persecution._

Franklin called this the LI Chapter of Genesis.

1774? _A Parable on Brotherly Love._

1778. _The Ephemera, an Emblem of Human Life._

A new rendition of an earlier essay on Human
Vanity.

1779. _The Story of the Whistle._

1779? _The Levee._

1779? _Proposed New Version of the Bible._

Part of the first chapter of _Job_ modernized.

(1779. Published) _The Morals of Chess._

1780? _The Handsome and Deformed Leg._

1780. _Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout._

(Published in 1802.)

1802. _A Petition of the Left Hand._

1806. _The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams._

[Illustration: MEDAL GIVEN BY THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM THE
FRANKLIN FUND]

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[Page 1 of _The Pennsylvania Gazette_,].

Numb. XL.

THE

Pennsylvania _GAZETTE_.
Containing the freshest Advices Foreign and Domestick.

From Thursday, September 25. to Thursday, October 2. 1729.

_The_ Pennsylvania Gazette _being now to
be carry'd on by other Hands, the Reader
may expect some Account of the Method we
design to proceed in._

_Upon a View of Chambers's great Dictionaries,
fr