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The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, [Vol 2 of 3]

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

This is Volume 2 of a 3-volume set. The other two volumes are also accessible in Project Gutenberg using http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48136 and http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48138.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Several pages of the book contain a description and examples of a modified alphabet proposed by B.F. There are six new characters in his alphabet; these, and the example text using them (pages 360-366 in the original book) are shown as images in this ebook.

More detail can be found at the end of the book.

The

WORKS

Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D.

VOL. 2.

W&G Cooke Sculptor

Printed,

for Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Paternoster Row, London.

THE
COMPLETE
WORKS,
IN
PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND MORALS,
OF THE LATE
DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND ARRANGED:

WITH

MEMOIRS OF HIS EARLY LIFE,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

London:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD;
AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES AND ORME,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.

———

1806.

J. CUNDEE, PRINTER

LONDON

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS.
Physical and meteorological observations, conjectures and suppositions	1
On water-spouts	11
The same subject continued	13
Water-spouts and whirlwinds compared	19
Description of a water-spout at Antigua	34
Shooting stars	36
Water-spouts and whirlwinds	37
Observations on the meteorological paper; by a gentleman in Connecticut	45
Observations in answer to the foregoing, by B. Franklin	49
Observations on the meteorological paper; sent by a gentleman in New York to B. Franklin	51
Answer to the foregoing observations, by B. Franklin	55
Gentleman of New York in reply	58
Account of a whirlwind at Maryland	61
On the north east storms in North America	63
Meteorological imaginations and conjectures	66
Suppositions and conjectures towards forming an hypothesis, for the explanation of the aurora borealis	69
On cold produced by evaporation	75
On the same subject	83
Concerning the light in sea-water	88
On the saltness of sea-water	91
On the effect of

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قراءة كتاب The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, [Vol 2 of 3]