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Thomas Jefferson compiles these notes in response to inquiries from a foreign official regarding the geography and state of Virginia. The text provides detailed descriptions of the region's boundaries, dimensions, and physical landscape as understood in the late eighteenth century.

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J. H. Dewees.

C 33 ] The Certificate of the Honorable STEVENS THOMPSON MASON, one of the Senators in Congrefs from the State of Virginia.

« LOGAN'S Speech, delivered at the Treaty, after the Battle in which Col. LEWIS was killed in 1774."

[ Here follows a copy of the speech agreeing "oer- batim with that printed in Dixon and Huntefs Vir- ginia Gazette of Febuary 4, 1775, under the WiU liamshurg head. At the foot is this certificate.'^ ^' The foregoing is a copy taken by me^ when a boy^ at school^ in the year 1775, or at farthest in 1776, and lately found in an old pocket-booky con- taining papers and manuscripts of that period, STEFENS THOMPSON MASON.

January 20thy l798."

A copy of LOGAN'S Speech given by the late General MERCER, who fell in the battle of Trenton, January 1776, to LEWIS WILLIS, Efquire, of Fredricklturg, in Virginia, upwards of zo years ago, ( from the date of Fe- bruary 1798,) communicated through MANN PAGE, Efquire, '' The SPEECH of LOGAN, a Shawanest chiefi to Lord DunmoreP [; Here follows a copy of the speech, agreeing 'oerbatim with that in the Notes on Virginia,'^ A copy of LOGANs SPEECH from the Notes, on Virginia haijing been sent to captain ANDREW RODGERS of Kentucky^ he subjoined the following certificate.

f* C 34 2 In the year 1774 I was out ivitb the Virginia VolunteerSy and njoas in the battle at the mouth of Canhawee^ and afterwards proceeded over the Ohio to the Indian Towns. I did not hear Logan make the above speech; but ^ from the unanimous accounts of those in camp., I have

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