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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... INDEX Abdy, E. S., on New England stages, *93- Academies, in New England, 228 ff.; Mr. Thomas on, 228 1.; for women, 230. Acadia, Jesuits in, 109. Accounts, squaring, 81 f., 99 f., 316. Adams, C. F., 172. Adams, John, on pettifoggers, 99; on New England institutions, 225; on American fondness for titles, 234; description of innkeepers, 264, 269 f. Adams and Liberty, song, by R. T. Paine, 149. Addison on witchcraft, 114. Advertisements, 8 f., 137, 264 f., 269, 276 ff., 296 f., 315 ff. .dischylus, 71. Agamemnon, murder of, 71; tragedy by ylischylus, 71. Agamenticus, Maine, murder at, 75. Agawam, Mass., 245. Agriculture, in the United States in 1783, 17; improvements in, 21; ob- servations on, desired by Mr. Thomas, 25 f.; Roman calendar of, 78 f.; Cato's precepts compared with Mr. Thomas's, 79 f.; pre- cepts of the Farmer's Calendar, 80 ff.; kitchen gardens, 84 ff.; hired men, 85 f. 180; haymaking, 88, 182 f.; tradition in, 91 f.; parsnips, 91 f.; cattle shows, 93; books on, 128, 141 f., 309 f., 311 ff; huskings, 168 ff.; changing works, 179 ff.; in- sect pests, 179, 181. 186 I.; wages, 180; women as laborers, 182 f.; crows and corn, 1S9 f.; Indian sum- mer and the crops, 191, 198; rail roads and, 301 f.; moon and, 305 ff. See also Farmer's Almanack; Far- mer's Calendar; Indian corn; Wheat. Agricultural fairs, 93. Ague cured by sympathetic remedy, 117; spiders as remedy, 119. Air, theories about, 166 f. Air-pump, 307. Albany, N. Y., stage line from Boston to, 287; so-called Telegraph Line of stages, 296; railroad, 298 f. Alders, clearing land of, 312. Aldrich, T. B., on Sunday reading, 317. Alert, of U. S. Navy, 215. Alexander, Sir James, on Indians of Canada, 160. Algonquins, 359. Allen, J., gardener, 9. Allen, Dr. T., writing master, 5. Allen, William, D.D....
