Benjamin Franklin — The Complete Works, In Philosophy, Politics, And Morals, Of The Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin
The Complete Works, In Philosophy, Politics, And Morals, Of The Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Volume II
LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS.
Occasioned by his sending me some notes he had taken of what I had said to him in conversation on the Theory of the Earth. I wrote it to set him right in some points wherein he had mistaken my meaning.[21]
FOOTNOTE:

FOOTNOTE:

[21] In an American periodical publication, this paper is said to have been so endorsed in Dr. Franklin's hand. We extract the paper itself, from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, where it was read Nov. 21, 1788. The two papers that follow it are from the same work, and were read in the Society the preceding day, and the other Jan. 15, 1790. Editor.

TO DAVID RITTENHOUSE, ESQ.