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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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was made to weigh him with a pair of fteel-yards, graduated to 1200 lb. but he weighed more. Yet this hog was probably not within 50 genera- tions of the European flock. I am well informed of another which weighed iioolb.

grofs. Afles have been ftill more ne- glefted than any other domeftic animal in America. They are neither fed nor houfed in the mod rigorous feafon of the year.

Yet they are larger than thofe meafured by Monf. D'Aubentonf, of 3 feet 7^ in- ches, 3 feet 4 inches, and 3 feet 2.- in- ches, the latter weighing only 215.8 lb, Thefe fizes, I fuppofe, have been produ- ced by the fame negligence in Europe, which has produced a like diminution here.

Where care has been taken of them on that fide of the water, they have been raifed to a fize bordering on that of the la Williamlburg, Apvil, 1765. f VIII. 48. SS^^- [ "I 1 horfe; not by the beat and drynefs of the climate, but by good food and flielter.

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