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Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1787 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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receiving, at Trenton, his Excellency.GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States, on hisKoute to the Seat of Federal Government: Communicated in a Letterto the Editor, (Embellished with a view of Trenton and the triumplial arch.) Sir, To the Editor of the Columbian magazine. INCLOSED you have a view^ ofthe TRIUMPHAL ARCH whicil was erected and decorated by theladies of Trenton, on the 21st instant, in honour of his excel-lency general Washington ; whopassedthrough this place on thatday in his way r o New-York,to take * Vi6it Art of Cookery made plain and easy, by H. Glasse. London, printed 1770. NewEdition.—Receipts for pickling zudhiuts green r to pickle gerkins ; large cucumbers; Frenchbeans; grapes and samphire; p. 260, 262, 264, 267, 270.—Vide, also, The UmyerialCook, by JofinTomuhendy printed i)j2; and. several others. May not the false gildingon giriger-biead, &c. prove very detrimental to children, who make nothing of eaangit, as weli as the jjiuger-bread itself?
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General TVashingtori s Reception at Trenton. 289 upon him the administration of thegovernment ot the Unitdc StatfS.This arch was erected in thecenter of the bridge which ex-tends across Assanpinch creek, atthe entrance of Trenton—whereour gallant general^ at one time,made so noble a coup on the ene-mies of his country; and, at ano-tiier, so important a stand, anda retreat worth more than a vic-tory. The arch was eighteenfeet high, fifteen feet in breadth,and ten in length, supported bythirteen pillars entwined wdthwreaths of laurel. The roof wasinterwoven with laurels and ever-greens. On the front was in-scribed in large golden letters, THE DEFENDER OF THE MOTHERSWILL ALSO PROTECT THEIR DAUGHTERS. Over this, in thecenter of the arch, on a square,ornamented with festoons ofever-Q;reens decorated with flowvers, was the date of his gloriousvictory at this place, when ninehundred Hessians were made pri-soners, and the horizon of Ame-rican affairs enlightened by a ra-diance which never ag

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