^62 Memorial of George Brown Goode. 



crustie shell fishe which is good meate, about a foot in breadth, having a 

 crustie tayle, many legges like a crabbe, and her eyes in her back." 



Harriot also alludes to various kinds of trees and shrubs, usually by 

 their Indian names. Among them may easily be recognized the pitch 

 pine sassafras, shoemake, chestnut, walnut, hickory, persimmon, prickly 

 pear' Nelumbium, Liriodendron, holly, beech, ash, and so on, beside the 

 maize and tobacco cultivated by the natives. 



A companion of Harriot's, whose labors are deserving of notice, was 

 John With or White, the first delineator of plants and animals who vis- 

 ited this continent. Concerning him and the ultimate utilization of his 

 work, Stith discourses as follows: 



UPON this Voyage, Sir Walter Ralegh, by the Queen's Advice and Directions, 

 sent at no small Expence, ^r.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 Supersti- 

 tions- Avhich he did with great Beauty and Exactness. There was one Theodore de 

 Bry who afterwards published, in the Year 1624, the beautiful Latvt Edition of 

 VoyUes in six Volumes, Folio, a most curious and valuable Work. He being in 

 Encrhvid soon after, by the Means of the Rev. Mr. Richard Hackliiyt, then of ChrisVs- 

 Ckurch in Oxford, who, De Bry tells us, had himself seen the Country, obtained 

 from mV 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 

 Maim where he published a noble Edition of them, with Latin Explanations, out of 

 John Wechelius's Press, in the Year 1590. And these are the Originals 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 i860 by Doctor E. E. Hale, who reported upon their condi- 

 tion to the American Antiquarian Society. ^ 



This collection, he says, consists of one hundred and twelve drawnigs 

 in water color, very carefully preserved. They are very well drawn, col- 

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

 anywhere valuable and creditable representations of the plants, birds, 

 beasts and men of a new country. Mr. Hale gives a list of these draw- 

 ings as identified by Sloane and others. Among these were the bald 

 ea-le the red-headed, hairv, and golden-winged woodpeckers, the blue- 

 bird, 'red-wing blackbird, towhee, redbird, blue jay, and fox-colored 

 thru'sh the crow blackbird, and apparently the mocking bird— "^r/a- 

 mockcs the linguist; a bird that imitateth and useth the sounds and tones 

 of almost all birds in the countrie." Among the fish we recognize the 

 mullet {Tetszo), the menhaden or oldwife {Masiinnehockeo), and the 

 sturgeon ( Coppaidco), and perhapsthesqueteague^^ 

 "T^Ii^t^^To^^e First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia, Williamsburg, 1717, 



p. 16. 



= Sir Hans Sloane and additional Manuscripts, 5270. 

 3 Archaelogia Americana, IV, pp. 21-24. 



