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PG-P.749.033
18 May 1749:22,23 (1066)
The dwelling houses of this city, being lately numbered,
from a motive of curiosity, by twelve careful persons, who
each undertook a part, there were found as follows, . . .
[list of districts and number of houses.]
It is but a few years, even within the memory of man,
since this country was a wilderness, . . . [15 lines]
Orpheus is said, in old poetic fables, to have built a city
by the force of his musick, the sound of his harp charming
even the trees and stones to collect themselves together:
But the sweetest of all sounds is liberty; and wholesome
laws with good government make the most enchanting harmony;
musick, which like the last trumpet, will be heard in the
remotest regions, and collect mankind from the most distant
parts of the globe.
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