Extract from the Gazette, 1737
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, December 8, 1737.

[Advertisement] A Honorary Reward is proposed to any Cabalist, who shall demonstrate that the Letter Z contains more occult virtues than the Letter X.

A Pecuniary Gratification is offered to any of the learned or unlearned, who shall Mathematically prove, that a Man’s having a Property in a Tract of Land, more or less, is thereby entitled to any Advantage, in point of understanding, over another Fellow, who has no other Estate, than “The Air——to breath in, the Earth——to walk upon, and all the Rivers of the World ——to drink of.

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