ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Notes were written in Virgin ia, in the year 1781, and fomewhat corrected and enlarged in the Winter of 1782, in answer to Queries propofed to the author, by a foreigner of diftinction, then refiding among us. The fubjects are all treated imperfectly; fome fcarcely touched on. To apologize for this by developing the circumstances of the time and place of their compofition, would be to open wounds which have already bled enough. To thefe circumstances fome of their imperfections may with truth be afcribed; 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 tranflation of them has been lately published in France, but with fuch alterations as the laws of the prefs in that country rendered neceffary. They are now offered to the public in their original form and language. Feb. 27, 1787. QUERY I. AN exact description of the limits and bounda ries of the state of Virginia? Virginia is bounded on the East by the Atlantic; on the north by a line of latitude, croffing the eastern fhore through Watkins's point, being about 37° 57′ north latitude; from thence by a ftraight line to Cinquac, near the mouth of Pâtowmac; thence by the Patowmac, which is common to Virginia and Maryland, to the first fountain of its northern branch ; thence by a meridian line, paffing through that fountain till it interfects a line running eaft and weft, in latitude 39°. 43′. 42. 4". which divides Maryland from Pennsylvania, and which was marked by Meffrs. Mafon and Dixon; thence by that line, and a continuation of it weftwardly to the completion of five degrees of longitude from the eastern boundary of Pennfylvania, in the fame latitude, and thence by a meridian line to the Ohio: on the Ohio and Miffifippi, to latitude 36°. 30′. north and on the South by the line of latitude laft mentioned. By admeasurements through nearly the whole of this laft line, and fupplying the unmeasured parts from good data, the Atlantic and Missisippi are found in this latitude to be 758 miles distant, equal to |