Excerpt from The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 2: Collected and Edited With a Life and Introduction; 1722-1750 Passages in sailing westward than in sailing eastward, because Franklin desired that the letter should not be re printed. He discovered that his theory, which related to the diurnal motion of the earth, was quite untenable, and he so informed Jonathan Williams in a letter dated January 19, 1786. The Prefaces to Poor Richard's Almanac are here for the first time reprinted in any collection of Franklin's works. All are included in this volume except those that relate to the making of wine, the appearance of the planets, and Middleton's account of life in the region of Hudson's Bay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.