DISCOURSE

ON THE

Character and Services

OF

THOMAS JEFFERSON,

MORE ESPECIALLY AS A

PROMOTER

OF

NATURAL AND PHYSICAL
SCIENCE.

Pronounced, by request, before the New-York Lyceum of Natural
History, on the 11th October, 1826.

BY

Lat

SAMUEL L. MITCHILL,

A Supporter of his Administration, three years in the House of Representatives, and five
in the Senate of the United States; Member of the American Philosophical
Society at Philadelphia; of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences at Boston; of the Antiquarian Societies at Wor-

cester and Nashville; Member of the Literary

and Philosophical Society at New-York;

President of the Association for

instructing the Deaf and

Dumb, &c. &c.

New-York:

PUBLISHED BY G. & C. CARVILL

1826.