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PG-P.753.114
4 Oct 1753:43 (1293)
Philadelphia, September 20, 1753. John Ormsby, who taught
fencing and dancing in this city last winter, begs leave to
acquaint the publick, that he arrived lately from Newark-
College, where he has taught during the summer season, and
last Monday opened school at Mr. Foster's house, silk-dyer,
opposite the Horse and Dray, in Market-street. The dancing-
room is now very much enlarged.
The days of attendance, and rates as usual, that is to
say, Fencing on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays,
in the forenoon, for twenty shillings a month, and the same
at entrance.
Dancing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, in the
afternoon, for a pistole a quarter, and the same at
entrance.
N.B. Said Ormsby will, at leisure hours, instruct
gentlemen at his dancing-room, in vulgar and decimal
arithmetick, vulgar fractions, and the extraction of the
square and cube roots; how to measure all sorts of
superficies and solids by the pen, various ways, and by
Gunter's scale, sliding-rule and sector; merchants accounts
after the Italian manner; geometry, trigonometry, gauging,
surveying and dialling; practical navigation, teaching how
to keep a ship's way with or without the assistance of books
or instruments, and how to take a celestial observation
divers curious ways; also several other branches too tedious
to mention. Gentlemen who are desirous to learn in private,
may depend upon being punctually attended on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, at any hour from two to eight in
the afternoon, at the customary rates in this city; and
those who may fancy to study history, or geography, shall be
welcome to the master's assistance, without any additional
expence.
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