::n NOTES 



Country would produce several extraordinary Com- 

 modities fit for Trade, yet the planters are so wholly 

 bent on planting Tobacco, that they seem to have laid 

 aside all Thoughts of other Improvements. This 

 Trade is brought to such Perfection, that the Virginia 

 Tobacco, especially the sweet-scented, which grows 

 on York River, is reckoned the best in the World, and 

 is what is generally vended in England for a home 

 consumption. The other Sorts, called Oranoac, and 

 that of Maryland, are hotter in the Mouth ; but they 

 turn to as good an Account, being in demand in Hol- 

 land, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany. 



P. 79. This was the foundation of Robert Boyle, 

 the philosopher, called the BrafTerton Foundation, 

 from an estate in England in which the funds were 

 invested. 



Cf. Jefferson's Notes (ed. 1801, New York), p. 223. 



P. 81 " Scotch merchants in Virginia before Revo- 

 lution used to have a meeting twice a year, to decide 

 on the rate of exchange, the price of tobacco and the 

 advances on the cost of their goods. This was the 

 substantial legislation of the Colony." Abstract of 

 conversation with Madison, in 1827, by J. Burton 

 Harrison. See, The Harrisons of Skimino. Edited 

 by Fairfax Harrison. Privately printed, 1910, p. 92. 



P. 82 It is possible that at Princeton (see, Vol. I), 

 these shell-banks had been mentioned by General 

 Lincoln, among whose scientific papers is a description 

 of them. 



P. 86 The first agricultural journal published in 

 Virginia {The Farmer's Register, Edmund Ruffin, 



