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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The ship Washington arrived in Providence from London, delivering to Dartmouth College an apparatus, museum curiosities, books from the legacy of the late Hon. Col. Atkinson, and additional volumes, as endowments from British benefactors.
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We hear from Providence, that the ship Washington, which lately arrived at that place from London, has brought for Dartmouth College, a respectable Apparatus, some curiosities for a Museum, and the amount of a Legacy of the late Hon. Col. Atkinson, in Books for the Library, and a number of volumes in addition.—The preceding endowments are the effects of the beneficence of particular gentlemen beyond the atlantic, whose benevolence is united to the prosperity of literature, and the rising of our western empire.
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delivery of apparatus, museum curiosities, books from legacy, and additional volumes to dartmouth college.
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The ship Washington lately arrived at Providence from London, bringing for Dartmouth College a respectable Apparatus, some curiosities for a Museum, the amount of a Legacy of the late Hon. Col. Atkinson in Books for the Library, and a number of volumes in addition. These endowments stem from the beneficence of particular gentlemen beyond the Atlantic supporting literature and the rising western empire.