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 394 THE GRANITE MONTHLY.

The Artifices of Deceivers Detected, &c. A sermon at Greenland, N. H., July 22, 1770. Samuel Macclintock. 8vo ; pp.34. Portsmouth.

Sermon on the Death of George Whuefield. Jonathan Parsons. 8vo ; pp. 44. Portsmouth, N. H.

1771.

Acts AND Laws of THE Colony of New Hampshire. Folio pp. 6, S, 5, 5, 8, XHL 286. Portsmouth.

1772.

A Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical Register of the Province of New Hampshire. 8vo ; pp. 16. Portsmouth, N. H. [Thomas does not inen- tion this, but three copies are still preserved. Ames's almanacs for 1760-61-62 bear the imprint of D. & R. Fovvle, but it is doubtful if they printed them, as 'the number for 1769 reads: "Printed by William McAlpine for D. & R. Fowle, at Portsmouth."]

Sermon at the Ordination of Geo. Wheaton. Abiel Leonard. 8vo ; pp. 24. Portsmouth, N. H.

Sermon at Portsmouth, N. H., June 14, 1772. Samuel Macclintock. 8vo ; pp. 24. Portsmouth.

1773-

Sermon at Keene, N. H., Oct, 8, 1 771, at the First Opening of the In- ferior Court in the County of Cheshire. Bunker Gay. 8vo ; pp. 29. Portsmouth.

Temporary Laws of the Province of New Hampshire. Folio.

No titles are mentioned for the years 1774-75. The political pot was be- ginning to boil furiously, and literary pursuits languished. I make no mention of ordination sermons and other pamphlets (notably President Wheelock's annual report of the Indian Charity School), written and delivered in this state, but printed in Salem and Boston.

��HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SHELBURNE.

��BY E. H. PHILBRICK.

THIS township, which lies in Coos county, north-east of the White moun- tains, was chartered in 166S, and re-chartered by George III, to Mark Wentworth and six others. The date of the new grant was 1771, and included Shelburne Addition, now known as Gorham. It was surveyed in the same year by Theodore Atkinson, who spent a number of months in the vicinity of the mountains. The population in 1820, when it was incorporated, was 205, while in 1870 it was only 250, and about the same in 1880. Mt. Moriah, the highest of several peaks, lies in the southern part of the town, and is much visited by tourists. The view from the summit is varied and extensive. To the eastward can be seen Umbagog. lake, with many of the highest summits in Maine. To the south-east, Portland and the ocean can be plainly discerned on a clear day ; while to the south lie Pleasant mountain and Lake Winni- piseogee. The White mountains shut out the view to the west. "This moun- tain," says an early writer, "was so named by one of the early settlers of the

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