42 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



Harriott also alludes to various kinds of trees and shrubs, usu 

 ally by their Indian names. Among them may easily be recog 

 nized the pitch-pine, sassafras, shoemake, chestnut, walnut, 

 hickory, persimmon, prickly pear, Nelumbium, Liriodendron. 

 holly, beech, ash, and so on, beside the maize and tobacco culti 

 vated by the natives. 



A companion of Harriott's, whose labors are deserving of no 

 tice, was John With or White, the first delineator of plants and 

 animals who visited this continent. Concerning him and the ul 

 timate utilization of his work, Stith discourses as follows : 



UPON this Voyage, Sir Walter Ralegh, by the Queen's Ad 

 vice and Directions, sent, at no small Expence, Mr. John With, 

 a skilful and ingenious Painter, to take the Situation of the 

 Country, and to paint, from the Life, the Figures and Habits of 

 the Natives, their Way of Living, and their several Fashions, 

 Modes and Superstitions, which he did with great Beauty and 

 Exactness. There was one Theodore De Bry, who afterwards 

 published the beautiful Latin Edition of Voyages in six Vol 

 umes, Folio, a most curious and valuable Work. He being in 

 England, soon after, by the Means of the Rev. Mr. Richard 

 Hackluyt, then of Christ's- Church, in Oxford, obtained from 

 Mr. With a Sight of these Pieces, with Permission to take them 

 off in Copper Plates. These, being very lively and well done, 

 he carried to Frankfort on the Maine, where he published a 

 noble Edition of them, with Latin Explanations, out of John 

 Wecheliiis's Press, in the Year 1590. , And there are the Origi 

 nals from which Mr. Beverley's and the Cuts of many of our 

 late Writers and Travellers have been chiefly imitated.* 



With's drawings are still in the British Museum,! where they 

 were examined in 1860 by Dr. E. E. Hale, who reported upon 

 their condition to the American Antiquarian Society. \ 



This collection, he says, consists of 112 drawings in water- 

 color, very carefully preserved. They are very well drawn, 

 colored with skill, and even in the present state of art would be 

 considered anywhere valuable and creditable representations of 



* STITH : History of Virginia, p. 16. 



f Sloane & Additional MSS. , 5270. 



1 See Archceoloffia Americana* iv, pp. 21-24. 



