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[121] Constantin François Chasseboeuf Volney, View of the Climate and Soil of the United States of America, translated from the French (London, 1804). Volney (1759-1820) was a journalist, scholar, and statesman, who wrote on a great variety of subjects. He spent four years in America (1795-1799), and intended to publish a criticism of American institutions, but was dissuaded, it is said, by his friendship for Franklin. After his return to France, he was made a member of the Academy in 1813, and a peer by Louis XVIII in 1814.—Ed.
[122] Dr. Drake has shown that the mean number of cloudy days in the year, was 104.33 for a space of six years; and that the mean term of variable days for the same period, was 82.16 days. Consequently, nearly half the time must have been clear weather.—Picture of Cincinnati, p. 103.—Flint.
[123] See Dr. Drake’s Picture of Cincinnati.—Flint.
[124] Ibid.—Flint.
[125] For the early history of New Madrid, see Cuming’s Tour, volume iv of our series, note 185.—Ed.
[126] For the Osage Indians, see Bradbury’s Travels, volume v of our series, note 22.—Ed.
[127] John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829), soldier and scientific speculator, was a nephew of the pioneer promoter of the same name. His much-ridiculed theory of the earth as a hollow sphere, was elaborated in his volume, Theory of Concentric Spheres, demonstrating that the Earth is Hollow (Cincinnati, 1826).—Ed.