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SOME PARTICULARS OF DR . PRIESTLEY ' S RESIDENCE AT NORTHUMBERLAND , AMERIC 4 . LETTER II , * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir ,
IN my last I concluded with Di \ Priestley ' s departure for Philadelphia during the winter , 1795 . Ajt this J : ime I had frequent interviews with his eldest son , Joseph , an enterprising and public-spirited man , and of a kind and beqevoleiit heart . He lived in a very good house , in the upper part of the town . It is a digression from my narrative , but I will just observe that Northumberland lies about 130 miles N . W . of
Philadelphia , and stands near the confluence of the two branches of the Susquehannah and the Ferryhouse , just in the fork thereof . A little higher , upon a rising ground , the town is situated 5 2 nd , on each side of the opposite shores of the two branches , the mountains lift their towering heads , and preclude all prospect , but what their barren sides afford * From thence , turning pur eyes down the river to the junction of its streams , which spread about a mile across , a sight , in" some degree romantic and of pleasing aspect , strikes the view .
At Northumberland , as in some other places in America which may probably rise to eminence , a plot of groupd of considerable extent was laid out , divided into streets and bidding lots : but , at the time I was there , it did not contain iTiore
than a hundred houses . As a temporary residence , Dr . Priestley bought a small house , and fitted it up decently for himself , while one of considerable magnitude was building on a plot of land at thp ppper part of the town , on the north branch of the river . This house was very pleasantly situated , having two
fronts—one towards the street , and the other towards the river , with a large garden and prchard , Mr . J . Priestley had ajso a * For Letter h sfe $ page 393 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/1/
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