History will never relate the horrors committed by the British
army, in the southern States of America. They raged in Virginia six
months only, from the middle of April to the middle of October, 1781,
when they were all taken prisoners; and I give you a faithful specimen
of their transactions for ten days of that time, and on one spot only.
_Ex pede Herculem_. I suppose their whole devastations during those six
months, amounted to about three millions sterling. The copiousness of
this subject has only left me space to assure you of the sentiments of
esteem and respect, with which I am, Sir, your most obedient, humble
servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CXLV.--TO JAMES MADISON, July 19, 1788
TO JAMES MADISON, _of William and Mary College_.
Paris, July 19, 1788.
Dear Sir,
My last letter to you was of the 13th of August last. As you seem
willing to accept of the crumbs of science on which we are subsisting
here, it is with pleasure I continue to hand them on to you, in
proportion as they are dealt out. Herschel's volcano in the moon you
have doubtless heard of, and placed among the other vagaries of a head,
which seems not organized for sound induction.
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