ADVERTISEMENT. 



The following Notes were written in Virginia, 

 in the year 1781, and somewhat corrected and 

 enlarged in the winter of 1782, in answer to 

 Queries proposed to the author, by a foreigner 

 of distinction, then residing amongst us. The 

 subjects are all treated imperfectly ; some scarce- 

 ly touched on. To apologize for this by develop- 

 ing the circumstances of the time and place of 

 their composition, would be to open wounds 

 ^ which have already bled enough. To these cir- 

 V cumstances some of their imperfections may with 

 L truth be ascribed ; the great mass to the want of 

 information and want of talents in the writer. 

 He had a few copies printed, which he gave 

 ,, among his friends : and a translation of them has 

 t been lately published in France, but with such 

 "" alterations as the laws of the press in that coun- 

 try rendered necessary. They are now offered 

 I to the public in their original form and language. 



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