Lexington, Extract. 1p. and end. Concerning Mammoth cave. Includes illustration. Cf. Minutes, pp. 427-428. For report of committee, see report dated: May 17, 1811. General physical description: 9x8 Natural History
Discusses political matters and mentions that Muhlenberg has been writing to his German friends in the different counties [of Pennsylvania]; discusses the matter of titles to be given by Congress to the President and the Vice President and remarks: "It is somewhat strange that the eastern Gentlemen should incline more to titles & pompous parade than the Southern Gentlemen"; mentions that, attended by the House [of Representatives], Muhlenberg is to present an address to the President [George Washington]; mentions that the first session of Congress will probably last until August or September and expresses hope that they then will adjourn to Philadelphia or some other place in Pennsylvania.
Points out that the Stoics and other philosophers preceded Dr. [Joseph] Priestley in the concept of the perfectability of the human mind; comments that no religious or political sect "ever carried their Jesuitical artifices to greater extravag_ than the late Faction of Atheistical Philosophers in France"; remarks that "Experimental is the only knowledge"; comments on the embargo.
Philadelphia. Dr. Priestley's experiment with fixed air; his observations thereon. Sending Franklin a pamphlet of his against the importation of negro slaves into Pennsylvania. Desires to see Franklin's treatise on colds; Dr. Cullen's observations on catarrhs and colds. Marriage of Rev. Mr. Coombe.
