POR LHE FiAnG

CREAR TE Riis
HEALTHFUL HOUSE.

A CARD was handed to the Principal of Healthful House
onacertain 15th of June, which bore simply the name,
without escutcheon or coronet :

Count ad’ Artigas.

Above this name, on a corner of the card, the following
address was written in pencil:

“On board the schooner £dda, at anchor at Newburn,
Pamlico Sound.”

The capital of North Carolina—one of the forty-four
states of the Union at that period—is the rather important
town of Raleigh, one hundred and fifty miles from the
ccast in the interior of the province. On account of its
central position that city had become the seat of the legis-
lature; for others—Wilmington, Charlotte, Fayetteville,

Edenton, Washington, Salisbury, Tarboro, Halifax, New-
burn—equal or surpass it in commerce and manufactures

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