A. D. 1685. 623 



light-coloured *. Our Englifli maftifF-dogs are known to degenerate on 

 the contment. Spanifli horfes do the fame in the Spanifh Weft-Indies; 

 yet in ChiU alone they are faid to mehorate the breed. By tranfplanc- 

 ing the vines on the banks of the Rhine the rich wine of the Canaries 

 was firft produced. Some fay alfo, that from the fame vine, tranfplant- 

 ed a fecond time to the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope, has 

 been produced that moft delicious Cape wine ; though others think it 

 fprung from a Burgundy vine. The China oranges, which are fent in 

 fuch immenfe quantities from Portugal all over Europe, came originally 

 from a China plant, and have fmce been tranfplanted, and profper in 

 Spain and Italy. And the like may be obferved of many other fruits, 

 plants, and vegetables, which, through the advantages of commerce and 

 navigation, all the countries of Europe now enjoy, though unkno\vn ta 

 older times. 



Although the Englhh Eaft-India company's affairs were faid at this 

 time to have been fo profperous, that their profits in nine years time, 

 viz. from 1676 to i6(S5, amounted to l^g6^,6;^g, yet, as all things on 

 earth are unflable, a reverfe of fortune happened at this very time. 



It feems the Indians had killed fome of the company's people at 

 Hughley, in the bay of Bengal, and that thereupon their governors 

 commenced war againft the mogul.. 



The company alleged, that the proper origin of this war was the falfe 

 reports induftrioufly fpread by the interlopers againft them ; fuch as, 

 that the company was fallen under the difpleafure of our king, that our 

 nation at home was under great difturbances, and that they themfelves 

 (the interlopers) were the true company. They alfo had corrupted 

 many of the company's fervants, whereby a revolt had been occafioned 

 at Bombay, and alfo at St. Helena, where they fet up for themfelves. 

 The company farther urged, that this dividing of the Englifti intereft 

 in India made the mogul's governors and rajas break through all their 

 antient engagements and ftipulations with the company, and deprive 

 them of many valuable privileges in India, and alfo extort great fums 

 of money from both parties : for the company alleged that the inter- 

 lopers fubmitted to any irapoiilions, fo as they might carry on the 

 trade ; they having, moreover, formerly given a handle to the Dutch 

 to expell the company from Bantam in the year 1682.. 



* Mr. AndtTfon has here fallen into an error Indies, if bom of ivhite women, have nothing in 



in common with many others, who, proceeding common with the negroes in their ptrlons. The 



upon mifrcprefentatioiis, or theories imagined by change eflfcfted upon the Portngucfc on the Afri- 



themfelves, or imph'citly adopted from others, have can coall proceeds folely and entirely from copu- 



negicited teat fads. But it is a certain and well- lation with black women, whereby ^, -J ^, or pcr- 



known truth, that white people never become black, haps |^ of their blood, are deiived irom negro pa- 



or woolly, neither do negroes become white, by rentage. A contrary change has in many iiiHanccs 



the influence of climate. The defcendants of the been effefted in the Well-Indies, where fome, 



firil negroes, who were carried to the coldell re- whofe great-great -grandmothers were negroes, can- 



gions of North-America, are as black and as wool- not now be dillinguillicd by the eye from genuine 



ly as their African anceltors were. The dtfcend- white men. M. 

 ants of the firft white men who fettled in the Well- 



