Red flowering maple. Acer rubrum. Umbrella. Magnolia tripetala. Swamp laurel. Magnolia glauca. Red bay. Laurus borbonia. Dwarf-rofe bay. Rhododendron maximum: Saffafras. Laurus faffafras. Locuft. Robinia pfeudo-acacia. Honey-locuft. Gleditfia. r. Dogwood. Cornus florida. Fringe or fnow-drop tree. Chionanthus Virginica. Barberry. Berberus vulgaris. Redbud, or Judas-tree. Cercis Cariadenfis. Holly. Ilex aquifolium. Cockspur hawthorn. Crataegus coccinea. Spindle-tree. Euonymus Europæus. Evergreen spindle tree. Euonymus Americanus. Itea Virginica. Elder. Sambucus nigra. Papaw. Annona triloba. Candleberry myrtle. Myrica cerifera. Dwarf-laurel. Kalmia angluftifolia. Kalmia latifolia. Ivy. Hedera quinquefolia. } called ivy with us. Trumpet Trumpet honeyfuckle. Lonicera fempervirens. Yellow jafmine. Bignonia fempervirens. Calycanthus floridus. American aloe. Agave Virginica. Black, or pitch pine. Pinus tæda. White pine. Pinus ftrobus. Yellow pine. Pinus Virginica. Spruce pine. Pinus foliis fingularibus. Clayton. Hemlock spruce fir. Pinus Canadenfis. Arbor vitæ. Thuya occidentalis. Juniper: Juniperus Virginica (called cedar with us.) Cyprefs. Cupreffus difticha. White cedar. Cupreffus Thyoides. Black oak. Quercus nigra. Red oak. Quercus rubra. Willow oak. Quercus phellos. Chefnut oak. Quercus prinus. Black jack oak. Quercus aquatica. Clayton. Ground oak. Quercus pumila. Live oak. Quercus Virginiana. Black birch. Betula nigra, Clayton. Millar. White Beach. Fagus fylvatica. Afh. Fraxinus Americana. Fraxinus Novæ Angliæ. Millar. Elm. Ulmus Americana. Willow. Salix. Query fpecies? The following were found in Virginia when firft vifited by the English; but it is not faid whether of fpontaneous growth, or by cultivation only. Most probably they were natives of more fouthern climates, and handed along the continent from one nation to another of the favages. Tobacco. Nicotiana. Maize. Zea mays. Round potatoes. Solanum tuberofum. Pumkins. Cucurbita pepo. Clymings. Cucurbita verrucofa. Squashes. Cucurbita melopepo. There is an infinitude of other plants and flowers, for an enumeration and scientific description of which I must refer to the Flora Virginica of our great botanift, Dr. Clayton, published by Gronovius at Leyden, in 1762. This accurate obferver was a native and refident of this state, paffed a long life in exploring and describing its plants, and is fuppofed to have enlarged the botanical catalogue as much as almost any man who has lived. Befides these plants, which are native, our farms produce produce wheat, rye, barley, oats, buck wheat, broom corn, and Indian corn. The climate fuits rice well enough, where the lands do. Tobacco, hemp, flax, and cotton, are ftaple commodities. Indigo yields two cuttings. The filk-worm is a native, and the mulberry proper for its food, grows kindly. We cultivate alfo potatoes, both the long and the round, turnips, carrots, parfnips, pumkins, and ground nuts (Arachis.) Our graffes are lucerne, st, foin, burnet, timothy, ray and orchard grafs; red, white, and yellow clover; greenfwerd, blue grafs, and crab grass. The gardens yield mufk-melons, water-melons, tomatas, okra, pomegranates, figs, and the efculent plants of Europe. The orchards produce apples, pears, cherries, quinces, peaches, nectarines, apricots, almonds, and plumbs. Our quadrupeds have been moftly defcribed by Linnæus and Monf. de Buffon. Of these the Mammoth, or big buffalo, as called by the Indians, must certainly have been the largeft. Their tradition is, that he was carnivorous, and ftill exifts in the northern parts of America. A delegation of warriors from the Delaware tribe having vifited the governor of Virginia, during the revolution,, on matters of business, after thefe had been difcuffed and fettled in council, the governor afked them fome queftions relative to their country, and among others, what they knew or had heard of the animal, whofe bones were found at the the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief fpeaker im mediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and fuited to what he conceived the elevation, with a pomp of his fubject, informed him that it was a tradition handed down from their fathers, That in ancient times a herd of thefe tremendous animals came to the big-bone licks, and began an univerfal deftruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been créated for the ufe of the Indians that the Great Man above, looking down and feeing this, was fo enraged, that he seized his lightning, defcended on the earth, feated himself on ⚫ a neighboring mountain, on a rock of which his feat and the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurl⚫ed his bolts among them till the whole were flaugh*tered, except the big bull, who prefenting his fore head to the fhafts, fhook them off as they fell; but miffing one at length, it wounded him in the fide ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, ⚫ over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day. It is well known that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled magnitude, are found in great numbers, fome lying on the furface of the earth, and fome a little below it. A Mr. Stanley, taken prifoner by the Indians near the mouth of the Taniffee, relates, that, after being transferred through feveral tribes, from one to another, he was at length carried over the mountains weft |