Pocopson Families

Article #12 - Phrenology

 

[This paper is difficult to read, being wrinkled, stained, and written in pencil. The author is concerned to defend an interest in the American Phrenological Journal and in phrenology in general. He or she rather condescendingly allows that not everyone may be interested in the subject “because they have no knowledge of it.” The journal is praised as “acknowledged to be one of the leading publications of the day containing the results of almost all important investigations in science...and they who don’t read it will be likely to get behind the time.”

Article #11 - An imaginary love story for the "Locust Grove Journal"

 

     A few years ago, on a very beautiful summer evening after the duties of the day were over, and all was in order so that I had nothing particularly to engage my attention, I took a ramble over the green meadoes [sic] and woods to amuse myself by surveying the beautiful works of nature which were displayed in all their magnificence and grandeur on every side.

Article #7 - Circumferance (sic) of the earth

 

How was the circumferance [sic]

of the earth first ascertained.

             I have not succeeded in finding out to a certainty...

[The unnamed writer goes on to explain two possible methods: one, by calculating from the convexity as seen at a measured distance in the ocean and then using geometry to arrive at the answer; and two, “by ascertaining the time the sun is in passing over any measured space on the equator” and calculating from that.]

Article #6 - An Essay on Improvement

 

 Ladies & gentlemen you have heard us patiently. We thank you for your attendance & your kind appreciation of our humble efforts.

            We commenced in Weakness, have persevered with energy, & if we have not shown as

much intellectual culture as would have been desirable we have proffited [sic] by the Motto of the poet

            “Little drops of Water

             Little grains of sand

             Make the Mighty ocean

Article #5 - Good Night

 

 Ladies & gentlemen you have heard us patiently. We thank you for your attendance & your kind appreciation of our humble efforts.

            We commenced in Weakness, have persevered with energy, & if we have not shown as

much intellectual culture as would have been desirable we have proffited [sic] by the Motto of the poet

            “Little drops of Water

             Little grains of sand

             Make the Mighty ocean

Article #4 - Flame of Candle

 

Why is the flame of a candle pointed at the

top like a cone?

 

            One reason is that all bodies of flame expand themselves in proportion to the magnitude

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