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Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered at Schenectady, July 22d, A D. 1823, Before the New-York Alpha of the Phi Beta KappaIn accepting the honor of your renewed invitations to appear at this place, I have not been insensible of your kind preference, and when you were pleased to intimate that the deep interest of science, in exhibitions of this nature, might be promoted by my co-operation, I considered it my imperative duty to yield a cheerful com...

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Excerpt from An Account of Abimelech Coody: And Other Celebrated Writers of New-York in a Letter From a Traveller, to His Friend in South Carolina I have, indeed, heard it sneeringly objected to his discourse that the scent of the original cask still remained about the author, and that his ironmong ery education, like Sancho's key, which gave the whole butt of wine a chalybeate taste, hasinfected the purity of his style, for that he has unwit...

Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered at Schenectady, July 22d, A D. 1823, Before the New-York Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa In accepting the honor of your renewed invitations to appear at this place, I have not been insensible of your kind preference, and when you were pleased to intimate that the deep interest of science, in exhibitions of this nature, might be promoted by my co-operation, I considered it my imperative duty to yield a cheerful c...

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Excerpt from Memoir on the Antiquities of the Western Parts of the State of New-York: Read Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-YorkNear the remains of this town I observed a large forest, which was in former times cleared and under cultivation, and I drew this inference from the following circumstances: There were no hillocks or small mounds which are always the result of uprooted trees, no uprooted or decaying trees or stumps...

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