Colorado College Studies (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...quod mirandarum esset rerum inventor, ut Varro dicit'. NILUS, Aen. 9, 30; G. 4, 291, dictus quasi veav 2).5, hoc est novum limum trahens.. PAN, Buc. 2, 31, deus rusticus, in naturae similitudinem formatus, unde et Pan dictus est, id est omne etc. Cf. HOH1. Hymn. XVIII 47, Havu de /1zv za).s.so.zov, 5.7z gopeva 11aazv Erep/Is. POENINAE, Aen. 10, 13, loca quae rupit (Hannibal sc.) Poeninae Alpes vocantur. quamvis legatur a Poenina dea etc. PRAENESTE, Aen. 7, 678, locus dictus rim) rr3v rrpivwv, id est ab ilicibus. Aen. 7, 682, Cato dicit quia is locus montibus praestet. cf. Ovid. Fast. VI 299, stat vi terra sua: vi stando Vesta vocatur. McMaster speaks of the plan for seventeen States as if it were wholly thrown aside by-Iefl'erson's committee. "One plan was to divide the ceded and purchased lands into seventeen States. Eight of these were to lie between the banks of the Mississippi and a north and south line through the falls of the Ohio. Eight more were to be marked out between this line and a second one parallel to it, and passing through the western bank of the mouth of the Great Kanawha. What remained was to form the seventeenth State. But few supporters were found for the measure, and a committee, over which Jefferson presided, was ordered to place before Congress a new scheme of division. Chase and Howe assisted him, and the three devised a plan-whereby the prairie lands were to be parted out among ten new States.'.' These "ten new States" lay north of the Ohio; except, as will presently be seen, parts of two of them. Nevertheless it seems clear that the Ordinance was meant to provide government for all the Western country that the States might cede, down to the...