THE TABLE.

History of the first attempts to settle Virginia, before the discovery of Chesapeake bay.

		PAGE.
§1.	Sir Walter Raleigh obtains letters patent, for making discoveries in America,	[8]
2.	Two ships set out on the discovery, and arrive at Roanoke inlet,	[9]
	Their account of the country,	[9]
	thier account of the natives,	[9]
3.	Queen Elizabeth names the country of Virginia,	[10]
4.	Sir Richard Greenvile's voyage,	[10]
	He plans the first colony, under command of Mr. Ralph Lane,	[11]
5.	The discoveries and accidents of the first colony,	[11]
6.	Their distress by want of provisions,	[12]
	Sir Francis Drake visits them,	[12]
	He gives them a ship and necessaries,	[12]
	He takes them away with him,	[12]
7.	Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Richard Greenvile, their voyages,	[13]
	The second settlement made,	[13]
8.	Mr. John White's expedition,	[13]
	The first Indian made a Christian there,	[14]
	The first child born there of Christian parentage,	[14]
	Third settlement, incorporated by the name of the city of Raleigh, in Virginia,	[14]
	Mr. White, their governor, sent home to solicit for supplies,	[14]
9.	John White's second voyage; last attempts to carry them recruits,	[14]
	His disappointment,	[15]
10.	Capt. Gosnell's voyage to the coast of Cape Cod,	[15]
11.	The Bristol voyages,	[16]
12.	A London voyage, which discovered New York,	[16]

[CHAPTER II.]

Discovery of Chesapeake bay by the corporation of London adventurers; their colony at Jamestown, and proceedings during the government by an elective president and council.

§13.	The companies of London and Plymouth obtain charters,	[18]
14.	Captain Smith first discovers the capes of Virginia,	[19]
15.	He plants his first colony at Jamestown,	[20]
	An account of Jamestown island,	[20]
16.	He sends the ships home, retaining one hundred and eight men to keep possession,	[20]
17.	That colony's mismanagement,	[21]
	Their misfortunes upon discovery of a supposed gold mine,	[21]
18.	Their first supplies after settlement,	[22]
	Their discoveries, and experiments in English grain,	[22]
	An attempt of some to desert the colony,	[22]
19.	The first Christian marriage in that colony,	[23]
	They make three plantations more,	[23]

[CHAPTER III.]

History of the colony after the change of their government, from an elective president to a commissionated governor, until the dissolution of the company.

§20.	The company get a new grant, and the nomination of the governors in themselves,	[24]
	They send three governors in equal degree,	[24]
	All three going in one ship, are shipwrecked at Bermudas,	[24]
	They build there two small cedar vessels,	[24]
21.	Captain Smith's return to England,	[25]
	Mismanagements ruin the colony,	[25]
	The first massacre and starving time,	[25]
	The first occasion of the ill character of Virginia,	[26]
	The five hundred men left by Captain Smith reduced to sixty in six months time,	[26]
22.	The three governors sail from Bermudas, and arrive at Virginia,	[26]
23.	They take off the Christians that remained there, and design, by way of Newfoundland, to return to England,	[27]
	Lord Delaware arrives and turns them back,	[27]
24.	Sir Thomas Dale arrives governor, with supplies,	[27]
25.	Sir Thomas Gates arrives governor,	[28]
	He plants out a new plantation,	[28]
26.	Pocahontas made prisoner, and married to Mr. Rolfe,	[28]
27.	Peace with the Indians,	[28]
28.	Pocahontas brought to England by Sir Thomas Dale,	[29]
29.	Captain Smith's petition to the queen in her behalf,	[29]
30.	His visit to Pocahontas,	[32]
	An Indian's account of the people of England,	[32]
31.	Pocahontas' reception at court, and death,	[33]
32.	Captain Yardley's government,	[34]
33.	Governor Argall's good administration,	[34]
34.	Powhatan's death, and successors,	[34]
	Peace renewed by the successors,	[34]
35.	Captain Argall's voyage from Virginia to New England,	[35]
36.	He defeats the French northward of New England,	[35]
37.	An account of those French,	[36]
38.	He also defeats the French in Acadia,	[36]
39.	His return to England,	[36]
	Sir George Yardley, governor,	[36]
40.	He resettles the deserted plantation, and held the first assembly,	[36]
	The method of that assembly,	[37]
41.	The first negroes carried to Virginia,	[37]
42.	Land apportioned to adventurers,	[37]
43.	A salt work and iron work in Virginia,	[38]
44.	Sir Francis Wyat made governor,	[38]
	King James, his instructions in care of tobacco,	[38]
	Captain Newport's plantation,	[38]
45.	Inferior courts in each plantation,	[39]
	Too much familiarity with the Indians,	[39]
46.	The massacre by the Indians, anno 1622,	[39]
47.	The discovery and prevention of it at Jamestown,	[40]
48.	The occasion of the massacre,	[41]
49.	A plot to destroy the Indians,	[42]
50.	The discouraging effects of the massacre,	[43]
51.	The corporation in England are the chief cause of misfortunes in Virginia,	[43]
52.	The company dissolved, and the colony taken into the king's hands,	[44]

[CHAPTER IV.]

History of the government, from the dissolution of the company to the year 1707.

§53.	King Charles First establishes the constitution of government, in the methods appointed by the first assembly,	[45]
54.	The ground of the ill settlement of Virginia,	[45]
55.	Lord Baltimore in Virginia,	[46]
56.	Lord Baltimore, proprietor of Maryland,	[46]
	Maryland named from the queen,	[46]
57.	Young Lord Baltimore seats Maryland,	[46]
	Misfortune to Virginia, by making Maryland a distinct government,	[47]
58.	Great grants and defalcations from Virginia,	[47]
59.	Governor Harvey sent prisoner to England, and by the king remanded back governor again,	[47]
60.	The last Indian massacre,	[48]
61.	A character and account of Oppechancanough, the Indian emperor,	[48]
62.	Sir William Berkeley made governor,	[49]
63.	He takes Oppechancanough prisoner,	[49]
	Oppechancanough's death,	[50]
64.	A new peace with the Indians, but the country disturbed by the troubles in England,	[50]
65.	Virginia subdued by the protector, Cromwell,	[50]
66.	He binds the plantations by an act of navigation,	[51]
67.	His jealousy and change of governors in Virginia,	[51]
68.	Upon the death of Matthews, the protector's governor, Sir William Berkeley is chosen by the people,	[52]
69.	He proclaims King Charles II before he was proclaimed in England,	[52]
70.	King Charles II renews Sir William Berkeley's commission,	[52]
71.	Sir William Berkeley makes Colonel Morrison deputy governor, and goes to England,	[53]
	The king renews the act concerning the plantation,	[53]
72.	The laws revised,	[53]
	The church of England established by law,	[53]
73.	Clergy provided for by law,	[53]
74.	The public charge of the government sustained by law,	[53]
75.	Encouragement of particular manufactures by law,	[54]
76.	The instruction for all ships to enter at Jamestown, used by law,	[54]
77.	Indian affairs settled by law,	[54]
78.	Jamestown encouraged by law,	[54]
79.	Restraints upon sectaries in religion,	[55]
80.	A plot to subvert the government,	[55]
81.	The defeat of the plot,	[55]
82.	An anniversary feast upon that occasion,	[56]
83.	The king commands the building a fort at Jamestown,	[56]
84.	A new restraint on the plantations by act of parliament,	[56]
85.	Endeavors for a stint in planting tobacco,	[56]
86.	Another endeavor at a stint defeated,	[57]
87.	The king sent instructions to build forts, and confine the trade to certain ports,	[57]
88.	The disappointment of those ports,	[58]
89.	Encouragement of manufactures enlarged,	[58]
90.	An attempt to discovery the country backward,	[59]
	Captain Batt's relation of that discovery,	[59]
91.	Sir William Berkeley intends to prosecute that discovery in person,	[60]
92.	The grounds of Bacon's rebellion,	[60]
	Four ingredients thereto,	[61]
93.	First, the low price of tobacco,	[61]
	Second, splitting the country into proprieties,	[61]
	The country send agents, to complain of the propriety grants,	[61]
94.	Third, new duties by act in England on the plantations,	[62]
95.	Fourth, disturbances on the land frontiers by the Indians,	[62]
	First, by the Indians on the head of the bay,	[62]
	Second, by the Indians on their own frontiers,	[63]
96.	The people rise against the Indians,	[63]
	They choose Nathan Bacon, Jr., for their leader,	[63]
97.	He heads them, and sends to the governor for a commission,	[64]
98.	He begins his march without a commission,	[64]
	The governor sends for him,	[65]
99.	Bacon goes down in a sloop with forty of his men to the governor,	[65]
100.	Goes away in a huff, is pursued and brought back by governor,	[65]
101.	Bacon steals privately out of town, and marches down to the assembly with six hundred of his volunteers,	[65]
102.	The governor, by advice of assembly, signs a commission to Mr. Bacon to be general,	[66]
103.	Bacon being marched away with his men is proclaimed rebel,	[66]
104.	Bacon returns with his forces to Jamestown,	[66]
105.	The governor flies to Accomac,	[66]
	The people there begin to make terms with him,	[67]
106.	Bacon holds a convention of gentlemen,	[67]
	They propose to take an oath to him,	[67]
107.	The forms of the oath,	[67]
108.	The governor makes head against him,	[69]
	General Bacon's death,	[69]
109.	Bacon's followers surrender upon articles,	[69]
110.	The agents compound with the proprietors,	[69]
111.	A new charter to Virginia,	[70]
112.	Soldiers arrive from England,	[70]
113.	The dissolution by Bacon's rebellion,	[70]
114.	Commissioners arrive in Virginia, and Sir William Berkeley returns to England,	[71]
115.	Herbert Jeffreys, esq., governor, concludes peace with Indians,	[71]
116.	Sir Henry Chicheley, deputy governor, builds forts against Indians,	[71]
	The assembly prohibited the importation of tobacco,	[72]
117.	Lord Colepepper, governor,	[72]
118.	Lord Colepepper's first assembly,	[72]
	He passes several obliging acts to the country,	[72]
119.	He doubles the governor's salary,	[72]
120.	He imposes the perquisite of ship money,	[73]
121.	He, by proclamation, raises the value of Spanish coins, and lowers it again,	[73]
122.	Sir Henry Chicheley, deputy governor,	[74]
	The plant cutting,	[74]
123.	Lord Colepepper's second assembly,	[75]
	He takes away appeals to the assembly,	[75]
124.	His advantage thereby in the propriety of the Northern Neck,	[76]
125.	He retrenches the new methods of court proceedings,	[77]
126.	He dismantled the forts on the heads of rivers, and appointed rangers in their stead,	[77]
127.	Secretary Spencer, president,	[77]
128.	Lord Effingham, governor,	[77]
	Some of his extraordinary methods of getting money,	[77]
	Complaints against him,	[78]
129.	Duty on liquors first raised,	[78]
130.	Court of Chancery by Lord Effingham,	[78]
131.	Colonel Bacon, president,	[79]
	The college designed,	[79]
132.	Francis Nicholson, lieutenant governor,	[79]
	He studies popularity,	[79]
	The college proposed to him,	[79]
	He refuses to call an assembly,	[79]
133.	He grants a brief to the college,	[79]
134.	The assembly address King William and Queen Mary for a college charter,	[80]
	The education intended by this college,	[80]
	The assembly present the lieutenant governor,	[80]
	His method of securing this present,	[80]
135.	Their majesties grant the charter,	[80]
	They grant liberally towards the building and endowing of it,	[80]
136.	The lieutenant governor encourages towns and manufactures,	[80]
	Gentlemen of the council complain of him and are misused,	[81]
	He falls off from the encouragement of the towns and trade,	[81]
137.	Edmund Andros, governor,	[81]
	The town law suspended,	[81]
138.	The project of a post office,	[81]
139.	The college charter arrived,	[81]
	The college further endowed, and the foundation laid,	[82]
140.	Sir Edmund Andros encourages manufactures, and regulates the secretary's office,	[82]
141.	A child born in the old age of the parents,	[83]
142.	Francis Nicholson, governor,	[83]
	His and Colonel Quarrey's memorials against plantations,	[84]
143.	His zeal for the church and college,	[84]
144.	He removes the general court from Jamestown,	[84]
145.	The taking of the pirate,	[84]
146.	The sham bills of nine hundred pounds for New York,	[86]
147.	Colonel Quarrey's unjust memorials,	[87]
148.	Governor Nott arrived,	[88]
149.	Revisal of the law finished,	[88]
150.	Ports and towns again set on foot,	[88]
151.	Slaves a real estate,	[88]
152.	A house built for the governor,	[88]
	Governor dies, and the college burnt,	[88]
153.	Edmond Jennings, esq., president,	[89]
154.	Alexander Spotswood, lieutenant governor,	[89]

[BOOK II.]

Natural Productions and Conveniences of Virginia in its unimproved state, before the English went thither.

[CHAPTER I.]

Bounds and Coast of Virginia.

§1.	Present bounds of Virginia,	[90]
2.	Chesapeake bay, and the sea coast of Virginia,	[91]
3.	What is meant by the word Virginia in this book,	[91]

[CHAPTER II.]

Of the Waters.

§4.	Conveniency of the bay and rivers,	[93]
5.	Springs and fountains descending to the rivers,	[93]
6.	Damage to vessels by the worm,	[94]
	Ways of avoiding that damage,	[94]

[CHAPTER III.]

Earths, and Soils.

§7.	The soil in general,	[96]
	River lands—lower, middle and upper,	[96]
8.	Earths and clays,	[98]
	Coal, slate and stone, and why not used,	[98]
9.	Minerals therein, and iron mine formerly wrought upon,	[98]
	Supposed gold mines lately discovered,	[99]
	That this gold mine was the supreme seat of the Indian temples formerly,	[99]
	That their chief altar was there also,	[99]
	Mr. Whitaker's account of a silver mine,	[99]
10.	Hills in Virginia,	[100]
	Springs in the high lands,	[101]

[CHAPTER IV.]

Wild Fruits.

§11.	Spontaneous fruits in general,	[102]
12.	Stoned fruits, viz: cherries, plums and persimmons,	[102]
13.	Berries, viz: mulberries, currants, hurts, cranberries, raspberries and strawberries,	[103]
14.	Of nuts,	[104]
15.	Of grapes,	[105]
	The report of some French vignerons formerly sent in thither,	[107]
16.	Honey, and the sugar trees,	[107]
17.	Myrtle tree, and myrtle wax,	[108]
	Hops growing wild,	[109]
18.	Great variety of seeds, plants and flowers,	[109]
	Two snake roots,	[109]
	Jamestown weed,	[110]
	Some curious flowers,	[111]
19.	Creeping vines bearing fruits, viz: melons, pompions, macocks, gourds, maracocks, and cushaws,	[112]
20.	Other fruits, roots and plants of the Indians,	[114]
	Several sorts of Indian corn,	[114]
	Of potatoes,	[115]
	Tobacco, as it was ordered by the Indians,	[116]

[CHAPTER V.]

Fish.

§21.	Great plenty and variety of fish,	[117]
	Vast shoals of herrings, shad, &c.,	[117]
22.	Continuality of the fishery,	[118]
	The names of some of the best edible fish,	[118]
	The names of some that are not eaten,	[118]
23.	Indian children catching fish,	[118]
	Several inventions of the Indians to take fish,	[119]
24.	Fishing hawks and bald eagles,	[121]
	Fish dropped in the orchard,	[121]

[CHAPTER VI.]

Wild Fowl and Hunted Game.

§25.	Wild Water Fowl,	[123]
26.	Game in the marshes and watery grounds,	[123]
27.	Game in the highlands and frontiers,	[123]
	Of the Opossum,	[124]
28.	Some Indian ways of hunting,	[124]
	Fire hunting,	[124]
	Their hunting quarters,	[125]
29.	Conclusion,	[126]

[BOOK III.]

Indians, their Religion, Laws and Customs, in War and Peace.

[CHAPTER I.]

Persons of the Indians, and their Dress.

§1.	Persons of the Indians, their color and shape,	[127]
2.	The cut of their hair, and ornament of their head,	[128]
3.	Of their vesture,	[128]
4.	Garb peculiar to their priests and conjurors,	[130]
5.	Of the women's dress,	[131]

[CHAPTER II.]

Matrimony of the Indians, and Management of their Children.

§6.	Conditions of their marriage,	[133]
7.	Maidens, and the story of their prostitution,	[133]
8.	Management of the young children,	[134]

[CHAPTER III.]

Towns, Building and Fortification of the Indians.

§9.	Towns and kingdoms of the Indians,	[135]
10.	Manner of their building,	[135]
11.	Their fuel, or firewood,	[136]
12.	Their seats and lodging,	[136]
13.	Their fortifications,	[136]

[CHAPTER IV.]

Cookery and Food of the Indians.

§14.	Their cookery,	[138]
15.	Their several sorts of food,	[139]
16.	Their times of eating,	[140]
17.	Their drink,	[140]
18.	Their ways of dining,	[141]

[CHAPTER V.]

Traveling, Reception and entertainment of the Indians.

§19.	Manner of their traveling, and provision they make for it,	[142]
	Their way of concealing their course,	[142]
20.	Manner of their reception of strangers,	[143]
	The pipe of peace,	[143]
21.	Their entertainment of honorable friends,	[145]

[CHAPTER VI.]

Learning and Languages of the Indians.

§22.	That they are without letters,	[147]
	Their descriptions by hieroglyphics,	[147]
	Heraldry and arms of the Indians,	[147]
23.	That they have different languages,	[148]
	Their general language,	[148]

[CHAPTER VII.]

War and Peace of the Indians.

§24.	Their consultations and war dances,	[149]
25.	Their barbarity upon a victory,	[149]
26.	Descent of the crown,	[150]
27.	Their triumphs for victory,	[150]
28.	Their treaties of peace, and ceremonies upon conclusion of peace,	[151]

[CHAPTER VIII.]

Religion, Worship and Superstitious Customs of the Indians.

§29.	Their quioccassan and idol of worship,	[152]
30.	Their notions of God, and worshiping the evil spirit,	[155]
31.	Their pawwawing or conjurations,	[157]
32.	Their huskanawing,	[160]
33.	Reasons of this custom,	[164]
34.	Their offerings and sacrifice,	[165]
35.	Their set feasts,	[165]
36.	Their account of time,	[165]
37.	Their superstition and zealotry,	[166]
38.	Their regard to the priests and magicians,	[167]
39.	Places of their worship and sacrifice,	[168]
	Their pawcorances or altar stones,	[168]
40.	Their care of the bodies of their princes after death,	[169]

[CHAPTER IX.]

Diseases and Cures of the Indians.

§41.	Their diseases in general, and burning for cure,	[171]
	Their sucking, scarifying and blistering,	[171]
	Priests' secrecy in the virtues of plants,	[171]
	Words wisoccan, wighsacan and woghsacan,	[172]
	Their physic, and the method of it,	[172]
42.	Their bagnios or baths,	[172]
	Their oiling after sweating,	[173]

[CHAPTER X.]

Sports and Pastimes of the Indians.

§43.	Their sports and pastimes in general,	[175]
	Their singing,	[175]
	Their dancing,	[175]
	A mask used among them,	[176]
	Their musical instruments,	[177]

[CHAPTER XI.]

Laws, and Authorities of the Indians among one another.

§44.	Their laws in general,	[178]
	Their severity and ill manners,	[178]
	Their implacable resentments,	[179]
45.	Their honors, preferments and authorities,	[179]
	Authority of the priests and conjurers,	[179]
	Servants or black boys,	[179]

[CHAPTER XII.]

Treasure or Riches of the Indians.

§46.

Indian money and goods,

[180]

[CHAPTER XIII.]

Handicrafts of the Indians.

§47.	Their lesser crafts, as making bows and arrows,	[182]
48.	Their making canoes,	[182]
	Their clearing woodland ground,	[183]
49.	Account of the tributary Indians,	[185]

[BOOK IV.]

Present State of Virginia.

[PART I.]

Polity and Government.

[CHAPTER I.]

Constitution of Government in Virginia.

§1.	Constitution of government in general,	[186]
2.	Governor, his authority and salary,	[188]
3.	Council and their authority,	[189]
4.	House of burgesses,	[190]

[CHAPTER II.]

Sub-Divisions of Virginia.

§5.	Division of the country,	[192]
6.	Division of the country by necks of land, counties and parishes,	[192]
7.	Division of the country by districts for trade by navigation,	[194]

[CHAPTER III.]

Public Offices of Government.

§8.	General officers as are immediately commissionated from the throne,	[196]
	Auditor, Receiver General and Secretary,	[196]
	Salaries of those officers,	[197]
9.	Other general officers,	[197]
	Ecclesiastical commissary and country's treasurer,	[197]
10.	Other public officers by commission,	[197]
	Escheators,	[197]
	Naval officers and collectors,	[198]
	Clerks and sheriffs,	[198]
	Surveyors of land and coroners,	[199]
11.	Other officers without commission,	[199]

[CHAPTER IV.]

Standing Revenues or Public Funds.

§12.	Public funds in general,	[200]
13.	Quit rent fund,	[200]
14.	Funds for maintenance of the government,	[201]
15.	Funds for extraordinary occasions, under the disposition of the assembly,	[201]
16.	Revenue granted by the act of assembly to the college,	[202]
17.	Revenue raised by act of parliament in England from the trade there,	[202]

[CHAPTER V.]

Levies for Payment of the Public, County and Parish Debts.

§18.	Several ways of raising money,	[203]
	Titheables,	[203]
19.	Public levy,	[203]
20.	County levy,	[204]
21.	Parish levy,	[204]

[CHAPTER VI.]

Courts of Law in Virginia.

§22.	Constitution of their courts,	[205]
23.	Several sorts of courts among them,	[206]
24.	General court in particular, and its jurisdiction,	[206]
25.	Times of holding a general court,	[206]
26.	Officers attending this court,	[206]
27.	Trials by juries and empannelling grand juries,	[207]
28.	Trial of criminals,	[207]
29.	Time of suits,	[208]
30.	Lawyers and pleadings,	[208]
31.	County courts,	[208]
32.	Orphans' courts,	[209]

[CHAPTER VII.]

Church and Church Affairs.

§33.	Parishes,	[210]
34.	Churches and chapels in each parish,	[210]
35.	Religion of the country,	[210]
36.	Benefices of the clergy,	[210]
37.	Disposition of parochial affairs,	[211]
38.	Probates, administrations, and marriage licenses,	[212]
39.	Induction of ministers, and precariousness of their livings,	[213]

[CHAPTER VIII.]

Concerning the College.

§40.	College endowments,	[214]
41.	The college a corporation,	[214]
42.	Governors and visitors of the college in perpetual succession,	[215]
43.	College buildings,	[215]
44.	Boys and schooling,	[215]

[CHAPTER IX.]

Military Strength in Virginia.

§45.	Forts and fortifications,	[217]
46.	Listed militia,	[217]
47.	Number of the militia,	[217]
48.	Service of the militia,	[218]
49.	Other particulars of the troops and companies,	[218]

[CHAPTER X.]

Servants and Slaves.

§50.	Distinction between a servant and a slave,	[219]
51.	Work of their servants and slaves,	[219]
52.	Laws in favor of servants,	[220]

[CHAPTER XI.]

Provision for the Poor, and other Public Charitable Works.

§53.	Legacy to the poor,	[223]
54.	Parish methods in maintaining their poor,	[223]
55.	Free schools, and schooling of children,	[224]

[CHAPTER XII.]

Tenure of Lands and Grants.

§56.	Tenure and patents of their lands,	[225]
57.	Several ways of acquiring grants of land,	[225]
58.	Rights to land,	[225]
59.	Patents upon survey,	[225]
60.	Grants of lapsed land,	[226]
61.	Grants of escheat land,	[227]

[CHAPTER XIII.]

Liberties and Naturalization of Aliens.

§62.	Naturalizations,	[228]
63.	French refugees at the Manican town,	[228]

[CHAPTER XIV.]

Currency and Valuation of Coins.

§64.

Coins current among them, what rates, and why carried from among them to the neighboring plantations,

[230]

[PART II.]

Husbandry and Improvements.

[CHAPTER XV.]

People, Inhabitants of Virginia.

§65.	First peopling of Virginia,	[231]
66.	First accession of wives to Virginia,	[231]
67.	Other ways by which the country was increased in people,	[232]

[CHAPTER XVI.]

Buildings in Virginia.

§68.	Public buildings,	[234]
69.	Private buildings,	[235]

[CHAPTER XVII.]

Edibles, Potables and Fuel.

§70.	Cookery,	[236]
71.	Flesh and fish,	[236]
72.	Bread,	[237]
73.	Their kitchen gardens,	[237]
74.	Their drinks,	[238]
75.	Their fuel,	[238]

[CHAPTER XVIII.]

Clothing in Virginia.

§76.	Clothing,	[239]
	Slothfulness in handicrafts,	[239]

[CHAPTER XIX.]

Temperature of the Climate, and the Inconveniences attending it.

§77.	Natural temper and mixture of the air,	[240]
78.	Climate and happy situation of the latitude,	[240]
79.	Occasions of its ill character,	[241]
	Rural pleasures,	[241]
80.	Annoyances, or occasions of uneasiness,	[243]
	Thunders,	[243]
	Heat,	[243]
	Troublesome insects,	[243]
81.	Winters,	[250]
	Sudden changes of the weather,	[251]

[CHAPTER XX.]

Diseases incident to the Country.

§82.	Diseases in general,	[252]
83.	Seasoning,	[253]
84.	Cachexia and yaws,	[253]
85.	Gripes,	[253]

[CHAPTER XXI.]

Recreations and Pastimes in Virginia.

§86.	Diversions in general,	[254]
87.	Deer-hunting,	[254]
88.	Hare-hunting,	[254]
89.	Vermin-hunting,	[255]
90.	Taking wild turkies,	[256]
91.	Fishing,	[256]
92.	Small game,	[256]
93.	Beaver,	[256]
94.	Horse-hunting,	[257]
95.	Hospitality,	[258]

[CHAPTER XXII.]

Natural Product of Virginia, and the Advantages of Husbandry.

§96.	Fruits,	[259]
97.	Grain,	[261]
98.	Linen, silk and cotton,	[261]
99.	Bees and cattle,	[262]
100.	Usefulness of the woods,	[263]
101.	Indolence of the inhabitants,	[263]