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Title: Notes on the state of Virginia : with an appendix
Year: 1801 (1800s)
Authors: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
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Publisher: New-York : Printed by M.L. & W.A. Davis--for Furman & Loudon
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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¢ and language.Feb. 27, 1787. - ⢠ADVERTISEMENT. : ------ - - ⢠X hz following Notes were written in Vir-ginia, -in the year 1781, and somewhat cdrrcttedMrid enlarged in the Winter of 1782,-in -an-swer to Queries proposed to the author, by a fo-reigner of distinction, then rtsiding among us.The subjects are all treated .imperfectly ; somescarcely^ touched on. To apologize for this by de-veloping the ^circumstances ofjhe time an$ placeof their composition,would be t6 fipen -wounds^tvkich have already bled enough.: To these circuni-stdnces some of their imperfections m&y with truthâ bt~ascribed; the great mass to the want of infor-mation, and want of talents in (he writer. liehad a few copies printed, which he gave amonghis friends: and a translation.of them has beenlately published in France^ but with such altera*tioas as the laws of-the press inihat country ren-dered necessary. Tliey are -now offered io -the pub-lic in their original form â and language.Feb. 27, 1787. -, .
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flr\> /)>⢠./\y.-/,» ,â.y,r,-,â J QUERY I. jCJlk exact description of the limits andboundaries of the state of Virginia ? Virginia is bounded on the East by the Atlantic ;on the north by a line of latitude, crossing the east-ern shore through Watkinss point, being about370. 57^ north latitude; from thence by a straightline to Cinquac, near the mouth of Patowmac;thence by the Patowmac, which is common toVirginia and Maryland, to the first fountain of itsnorthern branch ⢠thence by a meridian line, pas-sing through that fountain till it intersefts a linerunning east and west, in latitude 390. 43. 42.4.which divides Maryland from Pennsylvania, andwhich was marked by Messrs. Mason and Dixon;thence by that line, and a continuation of it west-wardly to the completion of five degrees of lon-gitude from the eastern boundary of Pennsylvania,m the same latitude, and thence by a meridian lineto the Ohio : on the West by the Ohio a

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