402 Nations lately become Literary. 



bably an impartial judge, taking the whole his-* 

 tory of the country together, would give the palm, 

 in this respect, to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. 

 The Sciences of Chemistry, Natural History^ 

 and Medicine,, have long been, and continue to 

 be, more successfully cultivated in the Middle 

 and Southern than in the Eastern States. The 

 same reasons apply in this ease that were suggested 

 with respect to Classic literature. Comparatively, 

 few young men have been sent, at any period, 

 from the Eastern States to European seminaries to 

 complete their medical education. Besides this 

 consideration, foreigners, even of literary and sci- 

 entific character, have received less encourage- 

 ment to settle in those States than in most other 

 parts of the Union. On the other hand, from the 

 Middle and Southern States a number of young 

 men have been, every year, sent to the Medical 

 Schools of Europe, who not only attended the or^ 

 dinary courses of instruction in Medicine, strictly 

 so called, but also the Lectures delivered on Che- 

 mistry and Natural History, as important auxili? 

 ary branches of Philosophy. It is further to be 

 observed, that several learned and enterprizing 

 foreigners, who visited and resided for some time 

 in New- York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South- 

 Carolina, devoted much of their time and atten^ 

 tion to Natural History f. excited some of the nar 

 live citizens, in their respective neighbourhoods, 

 to engage in this study f and thus introduced that 



y There is a particular reference here to Catesby, Garden - , ancj 

 Walter, who resided in South-Carolina; to Mitchell, who spent a 

 number of years in Virginia; to Professor Kalm, who devoted several 

 years to travelling in the Middle States; to Schoepf and Wangen- 

 heim, who came to America with the German troops, during the Revo- 

 lutionary war ; to whom may be added, Dr. Colden and Dr. Muhlen- 

 berg, whose talents and zeal in the study of Botany have been before re- 

 peatedly mentioned. 



z It was probably owing to the conversation and influence of these, 

 *r of soms other foreigner* visiting the country, that Clayton, Starke^ 



