Identifier: columbianmagazin17861787phil (find matches)
Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1787 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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matcly raifcs our idcr.s to the Col. HLj^. Vol I. No. 3. Deity, but likewife has this fupe-riority over all earthly enjoyments,that it never cloys ; being, to us,boundlefs, and affording infinitevariety. The portion of the globe we in-habit, which was a few centuriesfince, in a manner a new creationto the caftern world, will duubtlefafupply naturalilts with variety ofcurious and interefting obje6lp, andafford an ample field for fpecula-tion and experiments, though lit-tle thereof has yet appeared ; ow-ing, I apprehend, to the follov. ingcaufes.—Not mucli more thnn theeafttrn border of ihe country hasyet been inhabited by a civilizedpeople ; a border, probably, con-fifllng in great part, of new lands,formed by alterations, in which fewof the foiFii prodiidions of naturecan b. expcded ; nor have theother parts had fair play for oxhiMt-ing their curiofitics, as little morethan the furface has been examined,and that by perfons atteniive onlyto rrcfcnt fubfiftcnce, and future O provllion
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^^«x^<k-ft,^^^^^^^«s^.^-«^ ^^^Os-W^r** <K^.<^-£;« # ? THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE, For NOVEMBER, 1786. Defer ipt ion c/ Bones, ^\z. found near the River Ohio. EXPLORING tl)e paths ofnature, and tracing her throher numerous meanders, is certainlyan occupation fuited to intelk6lualbeings, who cannot more gratefullyacknowledge the blefllng than byemploying their faculties In con-templating the power and good-nefs of the Divine GxstXy as ex-hibited in his works ; nor has heonly adapted, \\\ a confiderable de-gree, the mind of mjin to the tafl;,but has likewifc added a ftimulus,by making many of our worldly en-joyments depend on an acquaintancewith her j but were all other ad-vantages wantlnc^, there is onewhich would render the favour in-valuable. Abflradled from the doc-trine of revelation, which Is as yetbut partially believed by the world,the book of nature is the only re-:ord from which the cxillencc,power, &c.

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