Note 37 — SIR WILLIAM DUNBAR—THE PIONEER OF SCIENTIST OF MISSISSIPPI.[21] BY FRANKLIN L. RILEY, PH. D. (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)
Reading edition
Ibid. This sentence is doubly interesting in the light of the fact that Mr. Jefferson himself had predicted "that it would be a thousand years before the country would be thickly settled as far west as the Mississippi." (See Hart's Formation of the Union, 139.)