448 MEMOIRS?/' the 
cukr cafes, not under the verge of the Bnglip laws, or where the 
]aws of England do not fo aptly provide for fome circumftances^ 
the church of England is pretty firmly eflabliflied amongft 
them ; churches are built, and an annual ftipend allowed every 
minifter by a perpetual law, which is more or lels, according to 
the number of taxable perfons in each parifh 3 every Chriftian 
male of \6 years old, and negroes male and female above that 
age, pay 40 pounds of tobacco to the minifter, which is levied 
by the iheritF amongft other public taxes, and makes the revenues 
of the minifters one with another, about 20000 pounds of tobacco, 
or 100 I. i\cr\in3,pe?' ammm. 
Upon the firftlettling in 7I/^r)toJ there were feveral Nations of 
Indians in the country, governed by feveral petty kings 5 but their 
numbers were afterwards muchdiminifh'd which was owing to their 
civil wars: They take delight in nothing elfe but huntmg j and it 
is rare that any of them embrace either the worihipor way of liv- 
ing of the EngliJJj : There is one thing oblervable of them, that 
tho' they are a people very timorous and cowardly in fight, yet 
when taken prifoners and condemned, they die like heroes, brav- 
ing the moft exquifite tortures, and finging all the time they are 
upon the rack. 
^he Circulation and Stagnation of the Shod in Tadpoles 5 Ipy 
M. Leewenhoek. Phil. Tranl. N° 160. p. 447. 
MLeeivenhoek had tadpoles of feveral fizesj the biggcft 
• were arrived to fuch a magnitude, that their hinder legs 
ftuck out from their bodies j and 50 of the fmalleft were together 
only equal to one great tadpole; hence he concludes, that frogs 
lay their eggs but very flowly , for it was already about a month's 
time fince he had made his oblervations, when he judged that 
fome of them were half grown : The firft obfervation he made 
of the motion of the blood was in a fmall vefTel, which was fome- 
what wider than to admit a red globule of blood, as A and B^, 
Plate XIII. Fig. 1 1. this vefTel, which is called an artery, and thro' 
which the blood coming from the heart from A to B is impelled with 
great fwiftnefs, divides itielf at B into two branches, as BC,. and 
B E • thefe two branches united again at D, where they continued 
united but a little way, as is lliewnby DF, and from this they 
divided again into two branches FG and FI5 thefe two branches 
rjn crooked, and were united at H, where they made a Ibmewhat 
larger vefTel, as H K ; where at K, it became a bigger veflel ; for 
whKh rcafon, we muft call the blood-veflels A B C D F G, and 
A B EF 1 arteries, becaufe they convey the blood from the hearty 
and 
