142 Lives of Mr. JVilUam Fernon, ^c. 



Preparation of Smalt and Arsenic," according to the 

 process used at the mines of Shneebergh, in Herman- 

 duria. This, accompanied with figures of the furnaces 

 employed, was printed in the Philosophical Transactions, 

 No. 293. vol. XXIV. p. 1754. 



I have not been able to ascertain the particular parts 

 of Maryland which were visited by Vernon and Krieg. 

 It is highly probable, that Virginia was occasionidly the 

 theatre of their botanical excursions. 



When Dr. Krieg died, I have not been able to learn. 

 It is certain, however, that he was not living iii the 

 vear 1737. 



IV. Logan, Cresap, and Rogers. 



THE publication of Logan's (supposed) speech, 

 by Mr. Jefferson, in his Azotes on the State of Virginia, 

 has excited much of the public attention. This speech 

 has been adduced to vindicate the character of the Indian, 

 or Man of America, from the foul aspersions of certain 

 European writers, who have ventured to assert, that 

 Nature, in forming the animal productions of the new 

 world, has laid aside her usual mastery ; that she has 

 formed, in other words, the animals of this portion of 

 the earth upon a smaller scale ; that she has armed them 

 with a weaker or less glowing fire ; and that she has 

 given to the human inhabitants, in particular, less of 

 that intellectual principle, which constitutes the proud 

 pre-eminence of man, in the range of the animal world. 



