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.

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS.

Physical and meteorological observations, conjectures and supposi-

Observations on the meteorological paper; by a gentleman in Con-

Observations in answer to the foregoing, by B. Franklin

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Observations on the meteorological paper; sent by a gentleman in

New York to B. Franklin

Answer to the foregoing observations, by B. Frauklin

Gentleman of New York in reply

Account of a whirlwind at Maryland

On the north east storms in North America

Meteorological imaginations and conjectures

Suppositions and conjectures towards forming an hypothesis, for the

On the effect of air on the barometer, and the benefits derived from

the study of insects -

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