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"And our own dear Monticello ... How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"[1]
     - Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, October 12, 1786

References

  1. ^ PTJ, 10:447. Transcription available at Founders Online.