Note 109 — {147} CHAPTER VIII {VI}

John Lawson, a Scotchman, came to North Carolina about 1700, as surveyor-general; he was killed by the Indians in 1712. His book, A New Voyage to Carolina, etc., originally published at London in 1709, ran through several editions, and was reprinted at Raleigh in 1860. "He [the bison] seldom appears amongst the English Inhabitants ... yet I have known some kill'd on the Hilly Part of Cape-Fair-River, they passing the Ledges of vast Mountains ... before they can come near us." [In margin.] "Two killed one year in Virginia at Appamaticks." (See edition of 1714, in Stevens's Collection of Voyages, p. 115.)

Cuming's Tour is reprinted as volume iv of our series. See p. 177 for passage quoted.—Ed.