ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. WITH AN APPENDIX. BY THOMAS JEFFERSON. EIGHTH AMERICAN EDITION. BOSTON: PRINTED BY DAVID CARLISLE, for THOMAS & ANDREWS, J. WEST, WEST & GREENLEAF, † 1801. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Notes were written in Virgin ia, in the year 1781, and fomewhat corrected and enlarged in the Winter of 1782, in anfwer to Queries propofed to the author, by a foreigner of diftinction, then refiding among us. The fubjects are all treated imperfectly; fome Scarcely touched on. To apologize for this by developing the circumstances of the time and place of their compofition, would be to open wounds which have already bled enough. To thefe circumstances fome of their imperfections may with truth be afcribed; the great mass to the want of information, and want of talents in the writer. He had a few copies printed, which he gave among his friends and a tranflation of them has been lately published in France, but with fuch alterations as the laws of the prefs in that country rendered neceffary. They are now offered to the public in their original form and language. Feb. 27, 1787. |