The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 8 (of 9) / Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private

by Thomas Jefferson

[58] June 4, 1781.

[59] Crawford.

[60] The instrument proper to them is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa, and which is the original of the guitar, its chords being precisely the four lower chords of the guitar.

[61] Tous doulous etaxen örismenou nomesmatos homilein tais therapainsin.—Plutarch. Cato.

[62] Suet. Claud. 25.

[63] Furneaux passim.

[64] This sum is equal to £850,000; Virginia money, 607,142 guineas.

[65] By the author of these notes.

[66] Mr. Hazard.

[67] Datura pericarpiis erectis ovatis. Linn.