The American instructor, or, Young man's best companion : containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published : and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master : instructions to write variety of hands, with copies both in prose and verse ... also merchants accompts ... with a description of the several American colonies : together with the carpenter's plain and exact rule : shewing how to measure carpenters, joyners, sawyers ... work ... likewise the practical gauger made easy : the art of dialling, and how to erect and fix any dial : with instructions for dying, colouring, and making colours : to which is added, The poor planter's physician : with instructions for marking on linnen : how to pickle and preserve : to make diverse sorts of wine : and many excellent plaisters, and medicines, necessary in all families : and also, prudent advice to young tradesmen and dealers : the whole better adapted to these American colonies, than any other book of the like kind