James Dinsmore and John M. Perry to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 27 March 1819
James Dinsmore and John M. Perry to University of Virginia Board of Visitors
27.1 march. 1819
the Subscribers haveing leveled from the doric pavillion to the springs on the mountain—find the two first to be 6. feet above the water table—at the distance of 1100 yards—one hundred yards further is another spring2 26. feet above the water table of pavillion—and still further—say abut 60 yards there is another 75. feet above the sd level—all of these are bold good springs—the furtherest spring—1260. yards from the pavillion—as near as we Could tell by steping it off3—
| Jas Dinsmore |
| John M. Perry |
RC (ViU: TJP); written in Perry’s hand on a small scrap, signed by Dinsmore and Perry; dateline beneath signatures; addressed by Perry: “the Visitors of the University present”; endorsed by TJ: “Dinsmore & Perry levelling.”
The doric pavillion is Pavilion VII, while the mountain is now known as Mount Jefferson or, informally, Observatory Hill.
1. Reworked from “29.”
2. Manuscript: “sping.”
3. Manuscript: “of.”
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