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Title: Achenwall's Observations on North America

Author: Gottfried Achenwall

Translator: J.G. Rosengarten

Release Date: March 4, 2008 [EBook #24752]

Language: English

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ACHENWALL'S OBSERVATIONS

ON

NORTH AMERICA

1767

TRANSLATED BY

J. G. ROSENGARTEN

_Reprinted from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,
January, 1903_

PHILADELPHIA
1903

ACHENWALL'S OBSERVATIONS ON NORTH
AMERICA, 1767.

[Franklin paid a short visit to Germany in the summer of 1766, and
at Goettingen met a number of the professors of the University. One
of them, Professor Achenwall, published in the "Hanoverian
Magazine," in the volume beginning 1767, p. 258, etc., "Some
Observations on North America and the British Colonies from verbal
information of Dr. Franklin," and this article was reprinted in
Frankfort and Leipsic in 1769. There is a copy of this reprint in
the Loganian Library, from which the following translation was
made. There is a copy of the Magazine in the Astor Library, New
York. It is of interest as showing the impression made by Franklin
on his German auditors, although it is clear that Achenwall did not
report quite correctly.--J. G. R.]

The most complete work on the British Colonies in North America is the
Summary historical and political by William Douglas, of which the second
improved edition was published in London, 1760, in two 8vo. volumes.
That doctor collected material for many years and w