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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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At a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia on March 16, William Henry of Lancaster presented, via Mr. Rittenhouse, a model wheel carriage, large crystals from Lancaster County, and a tusk and grinder from an unknown animal near the Ohio. Mr. Rittenhouse also presented a large moose deer horn from Mrs. Paul of the city.
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The American Philosophical Society at their meeting, received from William Henry, Esq. of Lancaster, the following piece of mechanism, and other curiosities, communicated by Mr. Rittenhouse:
The model of a wheel carriage, which rolls directly against the wind's force alone.
Two pieces of crystal, of an unusual magnitude found in Lancaster county.
An exceeding large tusk, and one of the grinders of some unknown animal; brought from the neighbourhood of the Ohio.
Mr. Rittenhouse also presented from Mrs. Paul (of the city), an horn, of extraordinary size, of the moose deer.
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Philadelphia
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March 16
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The American Philosophical Society received curiosities at their meeting: a model wheel carriage that rolls against the wind from William Henry via Mr. Rittenhouse; two large crystals from Lancaster County; a large tusk and grinder from an unknown animal near the Ohio; and a large moose deer horn from Mrs. Paul via Mr. Rittenhouse.