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In Describing Early America the author attempts to analyze and examine the concepts and common assumptions made about early American natural history. Pamela Regis uses three main documents to try and bring into perspective the relationship between natural history in its original context and what she claims to be eighteenth century "works of science". Regis attempts to persuade the reader that the three included documents are not simply works of belles lettres' but are in fact the works of scientific minds whose thoughts are placed on paper in accordance with the eighteenth century tradition of natural writing. Regis will provide an in-depth examination of "Bartran's Travels" (1791), Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the state of Virginia" (1782), and Hector St. John Crevecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer". From these documents the author will derive the information needed for her theory on the way natural history was influenced by these three men,...

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