Citations 



American Husbandry : 



Containing an Account of the Soil, Climate, Pro- 

 duction, and Agriculture of the British Colonies in 

 North America and the West-Indies. With observa- 

 tions on the advantages and disadvantages of settling 

 in them, conpared with Great Britain and Ireland. By 

 an American. In two volumes. London. Printed 

 for J. Bew in Pater-noster Row, 1775. [This work 

 is not cited by Dr. Schoepf, who doubtless used the 

 same materials, here and there, as the author. This 

 is an extraordinary book, a soil survey for America at 

 the beginning of the Revolution. The guess is haz- 

 arded that it was from the hand of Cluny, the author 

 of the famous American Traveller.] 



Browne, Patrick, 1720-1790: 



Civil and Natural History of Jamaica, 1756. He 

 left in MS ' A Catalogue of the Plants now growing in 

 the Sugar Islands.' 



Catesby, Mark, F. R. S. : 



The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the 

 Bahama Islands &c &c. Two volumes folio. London, 

 1 73 1 and 1743 (Vol. II). [Catesby spent seven years 

 in Virginia, from 1712 to 1719, " having relations 

 there." His work was the most sumptuous of the 

 books on natural history produced during the first half 

 of the eighteenth century ; the Latin names were sup- 

 plied by Dr. Sherrard. Catesby's Figures (Vol. I, 

 Birds; Vol. II, Fishes, Serpents &c) were repro- 



