1-8 Memoranda of the Natural History^ £s?c. 



different Manner, that is, on their Heads, with Spots not 

 like those of a Tiger, but like a py-ball'd, spotted Horse, 

 VIZ. some long, some oval, and others of another Figure, 

 and the same upon their bodies. Another I saw, whose 

 Hair was one half of it white as snow, and the other half 

 black ; I asked the Tartars , whether they were born so? 

 Their Answer was ; Some were, but that others got it 

 by sickness. Such speckled People are common on the 

 River Czulim, and near the City of Crasnojahr, on the 

 "Kw^Y Jenise't, among the Xw^mia/z Tartars^ — Historico- 

 Geographical Description of the North and Eastern parts 

 of Europe and Asia, &c. p. 173. English translation. 



II. Memoranda of the Natural History, Diseases, and 

 Native Remedies of some parts of the Island of Hay ti. 

 Communicated to the Editor, by Dr. Amos Gregg, 

 Junr. , late of Bristol, in Pennsylvania. With additional 

 Facts and Observations, by the Editor. 



THE parts to which I allude are Cape Francois, 

 Gonaives, and Port au Prince, with the vicinity of each. 

 I do not attempt to give any thing like a history of every 

 plant, bird, &c., which I saw; but merely a few detached 

 notices, and such as appeared new to me. 



I. NATURAL HISTORY. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Except the domesticated quadrupeds, I saw none, 

 unless it was a species of Mus, which, I think, lives 

 altogether without doors, in marshy, stoney ground. 



