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Giambattista Scandella. Series 2, Commonplaces [1].

Author
Scandella, Giambattista
Published
[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, approximately 1787-1798]
Physical Description
1 online resource
Additional Creators
AM (Publisher)
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Language Note
In Italian, French and English.
Summary
Commonplace book containing notes, quotations and passages from texts on a myriad of subjects, including: the rivers and industries in Illinois county, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina; coal mines along the Muskingum; the use of white and blue clay for glassworks and pottery; the meeting of different rivers in Ohio and Virginia; emigrants who travel from the frontier counties down the Cherokee river; the benefits and beauty of the Wabash as a river which rarely floods; the political beliefs of local people, from royalist Englishmen to the more numerous republicans and the anti-federalists. Copies out a passage from "Histoire de la Nouvelle France", sections from four letters to the Earl of Carlisle from William Eden (regarding public debt), as well as paragraphs regarding the history of Quebec's relationship with France (and general history of Quebec, including earthquakes and the foundation of key institutions in 1650-1673), English attitudes to trade monopolies and the Navigation Act.
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Note
From collection: Giambattista Scandella Papers, 1787-1798
Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania catalogue.
Title from publisher's website.
Reproduction Note
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2015. Digitized from a copy from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and made available by AM.
Location of Originals
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Copyright Note
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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