Royal Society. ui 
vious perfous are remarkable for the Oculonm rnohils petulantiay 
as 'PetromiiS calls it • from this alfo we may Iblve the ^mkers 
expeftmg face, waiting the pretended Ipirit, and the melancholy 
face of fectaries 3 the ftudious face of men of great application 
of mind 3 and the revengeful face of bloody men, like executi- 
oners m the ad: 5 and rho' filence in a lort may a while piafs for 
wifdom, yet looner or later, Sir Jiiartin peeps thro' the diiguiie, 
and marrs all j a changeable face is obierved to indicate a change- 
able mind : But tht doftor would by no means have what has been 
laid to be underltood, as without exception • for he doubts not 
but fometim.es there are found men with great and virtuous Ibuls 
under very unpromifing outfides. 
A Continuation of the Account of Virginia, by Mr. Clayton. 
Phil. Tranf.N° 210. p": 121. 
THERE were neither horfes, bulls, cows, ilicep, or fwine 
in all the country, before, the coming of the Eriglifij they 
never ilxoe or liable their horfes, yet they ride pretty iliarply 5 
a planter's pace is a proverb, which is a good hand-gallop: In 
the uninhabited parts there are wild bulls and cows, and they are 
hard to be fhot, having a great acutenefs of fmelling^ their fheep 
are of a middling fize, tolerably fine fleeced in general, and moll 
perlons of eftate keep flocks of them 5 the country abounds in good 
red deer 5 the Indians are laid to make artificial heads of boughs 
of trees, which they coniecrate to their gods, and thefe they put 
on to deceive the deer, and mimicking their feeding, they by 
degrees get within fiiot of them 5 fwine they have now in abun- 
dance 5 ihoats or porkrels are their general food, and it is as good 
as any JVeJfphalia^ at leafl far exceeding our Bnglijh : Rackoon 
is a Ipecies of a monkey, Ibmething leis than a fox, grey-haired, 
its feet formed like a hand, and the face too has the reiemblance 
of a monkey's 3 befides, being kept tame, they are very apifhj 
they prove very prejudicial to their poultry; An opoflljm is as 
large, and Ibmethmg fhaped like our badgers, but of a lighter 
dun colour, with a long tail fom.ewhat like a rat, but as thick as 
a man's thumb j the lldn of its belly is very large and folded, {q 
as to meet like a purie, wherein they lecure their young whilft 
little and tender, and into which thele latter run as naturally, as 
chickens to a hen, in thele falie bellies, they carry their young 5 
they feed on, and devour corn: Many will have their hares to be 
hedge-rabbets, but Mr. Clayton takes them to be a perfect fpecies 
of hares, becauie he had leen leverets there, with the white 
fpots in the head, vvhich the old ones have not j and the down is 
per- 
