CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.

ESSAYS.

Page
[The Way to Wealth; as clearly shown in the practice of an old Pennsylvania Almanac, entitled, "Poor Richard Improved"]5
[On True Happiness]14
[Public Men]16
[The Waste of Life]22
[Self-denial not the Essence of Virtue]25
[On the Usefulness of the Mathematics]27
[The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams]31
[Advice to a young Tradesman]37
[Rules of Health]39
[The Ephemera; an Emblem of Human Life. To Madame Brillon, of Passy]40
[The Whistle. To Madame Brillon]42
[On Luxury, Idleness, and Industry]45
[On Truth and Falsehood]50
[Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich]53
[The Way to make Money plenty in every Man's Pocket]54
[The Handsome and Deformed Leg]55
[On Human Vanity]58
[On Smuggling, and its various Species]62
[Remarks concerning the Savages of North America]66
[On Freedom of Speech and the Press]71
[On the Price of Corn and the Management of the Poor]82
[Singular Custom among the Americans, entitled Whitewashing]86
[On the Criminal Laws and the Practice of Privateering]94
[Letter from Anthony Afterwit]102

LETTERS.

[To Mrs. Abiah Franklin]107
[To Miss Jane Franklin]108
[To the same]109
[To Mr. George Whitefield]110
[To Mrs. D. Franklin]112
[To the same]113
[To Mrs. Jane Mecom]114
[To the same]115
[To the same]116
[To Miss Stevenson]119
[To Lord Kames]120
[To the same]121
[To the same]128
[To John Alleyne]130
[To Governor Franklin]132
[To Dr. Priestley]134
[To the same]136
[To Mr. Mather]137
[To Mr. Strahan]138
[To Dr. Priestley]138
[To Mrs. Thompson]139
[To Mr. Lith]142
[Answer to a Letter from Brussels]144
[To Dr. Price]151
[To Dr. Priestley]152
[To General Washington]154
[To M. Court de Gebelin]156
[To Francis Hopkinson]158
[To Francis Hopkinson]159
[To Samuel Huntingdon, President of Congress]160
[To the Bishop of St. Asaph]162
[To Miss Alexander]163
[To Benjamin Vaughan]164
[To Mrs. Hewson]166
[To David Hartley]167
[To Dr. Percival]168
[To Sir Joseph Banks]169
[To Robert Morris, Esq.]171
[To Dr. Mather]172
[To William Strahan, M.P.]174
[To George Wheatley]178
[To David Hartley]181
[To the Bishop of St. Asaph]181
[To Mrs. Hewson]184
[To M. Veillard]185
[To Mr. Jordain]187
[To Miss Hubbard]189
[To George Wheatley]190
[To B. Vaughan]192
[To the President of Congress]193
[To Mrs. Green]196
[To Dr. Price]197
[To B. Vaughan]198
[To Dr. Rush]199
[To Miss Catharine Louisa Shipley]199
[To * * *]200
[Copy of the last Letter written by Dr. Franklin]201

PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS.

[To the Abbé Soulavie.—Theory of the Earth]203
[To Dr. John Pringle.—On the different Strata of the Earth]207
[To Mr. Bowdoin.—Queries and Conjectures relating to Magnetism and the Theory of the Earth]208
[To M. Dubourg.—On the Nature of Seacoal]211
[Causes of Earthquakes]212
[To David Rittenhouse.—New and Curious Theory of Light and Heat]224
[Of Lightning; and the Methods now used in America for the securing Buildings and Persons from its mischievous Effects]227
[To Peter Collinson.—Electrical Kite]231
[Physical and Meteorological Observations, Conjectures, and Suppositions]232
[To Dr. Perkins.—Water-spouts and Whirlwinds compared]240
[To Alexander Small.—On the Northeast Storms in North America]254
[To Dr. Lining.—On Cold produced by Evaporation]256
[To Peter Franklin.—On the Saltness of Seawater]263
[To Miss Stephenson.—Salt Water rendered fresh by Distillation.—Method of relieving Thirst by Seawater]264
[To the same.—Tendency of Rivers to the Sea.—Effects of the Sun's Rays on Cloths of different Colours]266
[To the same.—On the Effect of Air on the Barometer, and the Benefits derived from the Study of Insects]270
[To Dr. Joseph Priestley.—Effect of Vegetation on Noxious Air]273
[To Dr. John Pringle.—On the Difference of Navigation in Shoal and Deep Water]274
[To Oliver Neale.—On the Art of Swimming]277
[To Miss Stephenson.—Method of contracting Chimneys.—Modesty in Disputation]281
[To M. Dubourg.—Observations on the prevailing Doctrines of Life and Death]282
[Lord Brougham's Portrait of Dr. Franklin]285

WRITINGS OF FRANKLIN