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tions &c. clearly evincing the innocence and propriety 

 of that honourable and respectable institution. In 

 answer to vague conjectures, false insinuations, & ill 

 founded objections." By an Obscure Individual. Phila- 

 delphia, 1783. 



P. 214 See, Miller, Retrospect of the Eighteenth 

 Century. New York, 1803, II, 402 " The Sciences 

 of Chemistry, Natural History, and Medicine, have 

 long been, and continue to be, more successfully culti- 

 vated in the Middle and Southern than in the Eastern 

 States. The same reasons apply in this case that were 

 suggested with respect to Classic literature." 



Dr. Miller's pages (II, 492-506) furnish perhaps 

 the best contemporary opinion regarding the eighteenth 

 century college in America. Schoepf's enumeration 

 (Vol. I, p. yy) should be corrected not Washington 

 College, Delaware, but Washington College, Mary- 

 land. 



P. 235 Dr. Andrew Turnbull, a Scotchman, in- 

 terested with Sir William Duncan in this enterprise. 



Cf. Fairbanks, History of Florida. Philadelphia, 

 1871, p. 216. 



P. 238 John Bartranrs Florida Journal was pub- 

 lished at London in 1766. William Bartram, his son, 

 had been living in North Carolina, in business there, 

 but joined his father in Florida, and being an observer 

 himself published his Travels in the Carolinas, 

 Georgia, and the Floridas at Philadelphia, 1791. John 

 Bartram had held the post of Botanist to the King 

 (George III). 



P. 248 Schoepf's itinerary should be compared with 

 Smyth's and Castiglioni's. Smyth is sparing of dates, 



