Whetston’s (Whetstone) park: “A dilapidated street in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, at the back of Holborn. It contains scarcely anything but old, half-tumble down houses; not a living plant of any kind adorns its nakedness, so it is presumable that as a park it never had an existence, or one so remote that even tradition has lost sight of the fact.”
Note 15, page [39].
The animals here mentioned are the black wolf (canis occidentalis), the black bear, the panther (felis concolor).
Note 16, page [40].
These animals are well known, the elk (alces Americanus), cat o’ the mountain or catamount (felis concolor), raccoon (procyon lotor), fox (vulpes fulvus), beaver (castor fiber), otter (lutra), opossum (didelphys Virginiana), hare, squirrel, musk-rat (fiber zibethicus). The monack is apparently the Maryland marmot or woodchuck (arctomys monax).
Note 17, page [40].
The domestic animals came chiefly from Virginia. As early as May 27, 1634, they got 100 swine from Accomac, with 30 cows, and they expected goats and hens (Relation of Maryland, 1634). Horses and sheep had to be imported from England, Virginia being unable to give any. Yet in 1679 Dankers and Sluyters, the Labadists, say: “Sheep they have none.”—Collections Long Island Hist. Soc., I, p. 218.
Note 18, page [41].
Alluding to the herds of swine kept by the Gadarenes, into one of which the Saviour allowed the devil named Legion to enter.