"But his imagination [Ignatius Sancho's] is wild and extravagant, escapes incessantly from every restraint of reason and taste, and, in the course of its vagaries, leaves a tract of thought as incoherent and eccentric, as is the course of a meteor through the sky."
Notes on the State of Virginia
Jefferson, Thomas. <U>Thomas Jefferson</U>.
Ed. Merrill D. Peterson. Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States: New York, 1984. <a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefVirg.html">Link</a> to UVA e-text edition. 