446 MEM O IR S of the 
of quadrupeds, they are alio joined in the Ovarium, and as they 
grow, their bodies cohere externally 5 fo that Sir ^obn obferves, 
that there are thele two reafons for the multitude of parts in an 
Emhrio, viz. the joining of two perfeft animals, or elle the 
extraordinary divifion of the original veflels, the arteries and 
nerves. 
An Account of Maryland ^ hy Mr, Hugh Jones. Phil. Tranf. 
1S!° 259. p. 43d. 
/^Hefepeak-bayy which runs N. and by W. about 200 miles or 
^ more, divides Maryland as well as Virginia into two parts, 
which are called the eaftern and weftern fhores ; the whole pro- 
vince contains 11 counties, 6 on the Maryland fide, which is 
the weftem, and 5 on the eaftern fhorej the land is generally 
low on both fides ; there is no hill, that Mr. Jones could learn, 
50 yards perpendicular height 5 but about 100 miles weft to- 
wards the heads of the rivers, the ground rifes, and appears in 
very high mountains, and rocky precipices, running north and 
ibuth 5 f om the top of which there is a clear profpeft of Vir- 
ginia and Maryland j all the low land is very woody, like one 
continued foreft, no part cleared but what the Englip have done 
in that refpe£t j and tho' the inhabitants are feated pretty clofe, 
yet they cannot fee their next neighbour's houfe for trees 5 in time 
it may be otherwife ; but as the tobacco trade employs a great 
deal of timber, both for making of hogsheads, and building 
tobacco-houfes, and that the ground is cleared yearly for plant- 
ing, the number of woods may in time be leflened: The foil is 
generally fandy, and free of ftone, which makes it very conve- 
nient for travelling: As to the natural fituation of the country; 
the number of navigable rivers, creeks, and inlets, render it very 
convenient both for exportation and importation ; the rich and 
plentiful gifts of nature likewile add to the happinefs of the 
place 'y the three elements affording plenty of food for the ufe of 
man j and for the prelervation of health many excellent herbs and 
roots, the difcovery of whofe virtues are chiefly owing to the In- 
dians -^ as for timber, there are feveral forts of oak, viz. the 
red, white, black, chefnut, water, Spanijhy and line oaks, which 
laft bears a leaf like a willow; there is alfo a white and red 
cedar ; the red lerves only for pofts and groundfils; the white is 
for making plank, that being the freeft from knots ; there is a 
tree called cyprefs, which is extraordinary large in bulk, and 
bears a leaf like the lenfitivc plant; it is foft and fpongy, will 
not fplit, and is fit for no uie; here they have black-walnut, 
which 
