Dryden, [OE]dipus, act iii. sc. I.
[93] The word means an assembly of persons engaged for a common purpose. It is from the Spanish junta ("a council").
[94] An instrument used in navigation for measuring the altitude of the sun.
[95] Putting the types no longer needed for printing into the proper boxes.
[96] Set up for printing.
[97] Type in a jumbled mass.
[98] "This paper was called The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette. Keimer printed his last number—the thirty-ninth—on the twenty-fifth day of September, 1729."—Bigelow.
[99] The governor brought instructions from the king that his salary should be one thousand pounds. The legislature claimed the liberty of fixing the sum themselves. Franklin ended his article with this sentence: "Their happy mother country will perhaps observe with pleasure that, though her gallant cocks and matchless dogs abate their natural fire and intrepidity when transported to a foreign clime (as this nation is), yet her sons in the remotest part of the earth, and even to the third and fourth descent, still retain that ardent spirit of liberty, and that undaunted courage, which has in every age so gloriously distinguished Britons and Englishmen from the rest of mankind."
[100] Franklin's Note.—I got his son once five hundred pounds.
[101] This money had not the full value of the pound sterling.