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mental life. These three are addressed, &quot;To the Hon 

 orable Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United 

 States.&quot; The first is an introductory one, of a column 

 and a half length, &quot; On Alleghawian Records &quot; ; the 

 second constitutes a &quot;Description of the Alleghawian 

 Monuments In the neighborhood of Mount Sterling, 

 Montgomery Co. Kentucky&quot;; the third, a column and 

 half long, has the following title : &quot; On some Allegawian 

 Implements etc&quot;. The mounds or works are quite fully 

 described in these letters, as well as their probable uses, 

 or better, perhaps, the uses which Rafinesque supposed 

 they had subserved; the same treatment was accorded 

 the implements. 



FROM 182^ TO 1840. 



Rafinesque left Lexington and Kentucky in June, 

 1825, taking with him all his possessions. He left 

 Transylvania University of his own accord, driven to 

 desperation by the treatment accorded his collections. 

 He turned his footsteps eastward; his work west of the 

 Alleghanies had ended. So far as is known he never 

 visited again the regions to the west. As first, in 1802, 

 so now, in 1825, he at last made Philadelphia his home. 



It is impossible to follow with very much detail the 

 last fifteen years of his life. The facts are too little 



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