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this press was first landed at Ipswich, in this county. and set up there, but not used.

 In the same year the colonists built an aca- demy at Cambridge, and opened printing house at that place. And in January 1889, at Cambridge, ''prnting was first performed in that part of North America which extends from the GulfofMexicot to the FrozenO Ocean. 5 Maryland followed, at long interval. Vir- ginia, although the first British settlement in America, did not tolerate the art till many years after its introduction into Massachusetts. Sir William Berkley, Governor of Virginia, in answer to the inquiries of the Lords of the Committee for the Colonies, in the year 1872, siXtyfour years after the settlement of Virgil nia, says:-"I thank God, we have no FREE SCHOOLS nor PRINTING, and l hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, ,and seats, and here sy into the world; and printing has divuged them and libels against the government. God keep us from bothl'

 Cambridge was the place at which the rulers both of Church and State, in Massachusetts, then held their assemblies. This circum- stance, probably, induced those who had the management of public affairs to fix the press there; and there it remained for sixty years, although under their control; as were other presses afterwards established in the colony; but for upwards of thirty years, printing was exclusively carried on in that town.