1Robert McDermut to Thomas Jefferson, 5 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Having fortuitously met with Doctor Young’s translation, from the french, of “ D’Anville’s complete body of Ancient Geography,” in the hands of a near relation to whom he had presented the copy, it imediately occured to me that an Edition of it might be very acceptable in our schools and Colleges, as an useful key to Ancient History &c. The work might, perhaps, be better adapted to use of...