William Nelson, Westover to St. George Tucker, 1810
- Containers:
- Box 30, Folder 4
- Scope and content:
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Have been ill. ". . . Have you seen the Account of a Grecian-Body found in a Cave in the Mountains of Pennsylvania, with a Statue of Marble equal to that of Venus de Medicis, with documents (in Greek), stating the person to have sailed from Corinth in some year of the 72d Olympiad, i.e. about 10 years as well as I can make it out after Xerces' Invasion of Greece, and about 20 before the return of the Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem by Cyrus's permission? It is either a Burlesque on the Description of the large Cave in Kentucky, or the discoveries lately made in Geology and mineralogy; or some whimsical fellow chuses a fabulous Introduction to some facts or theory on these subjects. It is published in the Norfolk or Petersburg Papers. Could the Fellow have heard of the Hieroglyphics which you discovered on King Powhatan's Tombstone?"
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