At his Dwelling-Houſe near the North Bridge.
The Courſe to conſiſt of two Lectures,
At a Piſtareen each Lecture.
As the Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind, and give us more noble, more grand and exalted Ideas of the Author of Nature, and if well purſued, ſeldom fails producing ſomething uſeful to Man, 'tis hoped theſe Lectures may be thought worthy of Regard and Encouragement.
Tickets to be had at the above Place.
Poſitively the LAST NIGHT.
To-Morrow, being Friday,
Auguſt 17, 1769.
Mr. Douglaſs,
Will deliver the
LECTURE
ON
HEADS,
Coats of Arms, Wigs, Ladies-head
Dreſſes, &c., &c., &c., &c.
After which, will be pronounced
Some Select Pieces
From
The most Celebrated
ENGLISH POETS.
*** Tickets for Admiſſion, to be had of Green and
Ruſſell, and at the Bunch of Grapes in King-Street.
At HALF-a-DOLLAR each.
To begin exactly at 8 o'clock.
Thus we see that Salem was early in the field of literature and science. Its citizens must take pride in remembering such great names as Nathaniel Bowditch, William H. Prescott, Joseph Story, Timothy Pickering, John Pickering, Benjamin Peirce, William W. Story, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and many others.
When we see the great waste of paper in these days,—handbills, circulars, and newspapers, which are blowing about the streets at times,—we sometimes wonder how it was in 1767, on October 19, when the following notice appeared in the "Boston Gazette."