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PENSANSE

Volume 3 · 95 words · 1771 Edition

a market-town of Cornwall, eight miles east of the Land's end.

PENNSILVANIA, one of the English plantations in America, two hundred miles in length, and almost as much in breadth; situated between 74 and 78° of west longitude, and between 39 and 42° of north latitude; a fine fruitful country, bounded by the five nations of the Iroquois on the north, by New-Jersey and New-York on the east, and by Maryland on the south and west. It is a proprietary government, the heirs of Mr. Penn, a Quaker, who settled this country, appointing the governor.