[Footnote 141: "Magic squares," i.e., square figures of a series of numbers so disposed that the sums of each row or line, taken in any direction, are equal. Magic squares are also formed of words or phrases so arranged as to read the same in all directions. The magic circle is a modification of the magic square, one form of which was devised by Franklin.] [Footnote 142: A form or draft of the law, presented to the legislature for adoption.] [Footnote 143: The church of this society is now on the corner of Walnut and Twenty-first Streets.] [Footnote 144: Pleasure gardens in the London of Franklin's day.] [Footnote 145: A street in London in which Franklin had apartments.] [Footnote 146: Little channel or gutter.] [Footnote 147: Now a part of London, but formerly a separate corporation.] [Footnote 148: "From the manuscript journal of Mr. Andrew Ellicott," says Mr. John Bigelow in one of his editions of the Autobiography, "I have been kindly favored by Mr. J. C. G. Kennedy, of Washington, one of his descendants, with the following extract, which was written three years before the preceding paragraph in the Autobiography: "'I found him [Franklin] in his little room among his papers. He received me very politely, and immediately entered into conversation about the western country. His room makes a singular appearance, being filled with old philosophical instruments, papers, boxes, tables, and stools. About ten o'clock he placed some water on the fire, but not being expert through his great age, I desired him to give me the pleasure of assisting him. He thanked me, and replied that he ever made it a point to wait upon himself, and, although he began to find himself infirm, he was determined not to increase his infirmities by giving way to them. After the water was hot, I observed his object was to shave himself, which operation he performed without a glass and with great expedition. I asked him if he ever employed a barber; he answered: "No; I think happiness does not consist so much in particular pieces of good fortune, which perhaps occasionally fall to a man's lot, as to be able in his old age to do those little things which, being unable to perform himself, would be done by others with a sparing hand."'"] [Footnote 149: That is, he examined the accounts and managed the financial affairs.] [Footnote 150: The ministers of the Crown in London.] [Footnote 151: The college in Cambridge, Harvard College.] [Footnote 152: The commissioners of trade, who lived in England, and to whom the colonial governors made their reports and returns. Their duty was "to put things into a form and order of government that should always preserve these countries in obedience to the Crown."] [Footnote 153: A union of six of the more considerable Indian tribes.] [Footnote 154: The power of the king.] [Footnote 155: The government of the people.]