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unlikely that it formed an Appendix to one of the edi- 

 tions. 



It also appears reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany,, 

 8vo. Vol. vi. page 540. 



XIX. 



A Eare and New Discovery of a speedy way, and easie 

 means, found out by a young Lady in England, 

 she having made full proofe thereof in May, Anno 

 1652. For the feeding of Silk-worms in the 

 Woods, on the Mulberry- Tree-leaves in Virginia : 

 Who after fourty dayes time present there most 

 rich golden- coloured silken Fleece, to the instant 

 wonderful! enriching of all the Planters there, 

 requiring from them neither cost, labour, or 

 hindrance in any of their other employments 

 whatsoever. 

 And also to the good hopes that the Indians, seeing 

 and finding that there is neither Art, Skill or 

 Pains in the thing ; they will readily set upon it, 

 being by the benefit thereof inabled to buy of the 

 English (in way of Truck for their Silk-bottomes) 

 all those things that they most desire. So that 

 not only their Civilizing will follow, thereupon, 

 but by the infinite mercie of God, their Conversion 

 to the Christian Faith, the Glory of our Nation, 

 which is the daily humble prayer of Virginia for 

 Virginia. With two Propositions tending to 



