462 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1700. 



and even in the heat of summer it cools the air very much. We have little or 

 no woollen or linen manufacture, excepting what is made in Somerset county, 

 over the Bay; because we are yearly supplied from England with necessaries: 

 but tobacco is the standard for trade, not only with the merchants, but also 

 among ourselves. 



Our common drink is cyder, which is very good. We have wine from Ma- 

 deira and Fayal, rum from Barbadoes ; beer, malt, and wines from England. 

 We have plenty of good grapes growing wild in the woods, but there is no 

 improvement made of them. We are governed by the same laws as in England, 

 besides some acts of assembly of a local nature. 



The church of England is pretty firmly established. Churches are built, 

 and there is an annual stipend allowed to every minister by a perpetual law, 

 which is more or less according to the number of taxables in each parish ; every 

 christian male above l6 years old, and negroes, male and female, above that 

 age, pay 40 pounds of tobacco to the minister ; which is levied by the sheriff 

 among other public levies which makes the revenues of the ministers, one with 

 another, about 20000 pounds of tobacco, or lOOl. sterling perann. 



On the first seating of Maryland there were several nations of Indians in the 

 country, governed by several petty kings ; now I do not think that there are 

 500 fighting men of them in the province, and those are most on the eastern 

 shore, where they have two or three little towns. The cause of their diminish- 

 ing proceeded from their own perpetual discords and wars among themselves, 

 as being a scattered people under several heads, and always at variance with one 

 another. One thing is observable in them, though they are a people very 

 timorous and cowardly in fight, yet when taken prisoners and condemned, 

 they die like heroes, braving the most exquisite tortures that can be invented, 

 and singing all the time they are upon the rack. 



JSND OF VOLUME TWENTY-FIRST OF THE ORIGINAL. 



The Construction of a Quadratix to the Circle, being the Curve described by its 

 Equable Evolution.* N" 260, p. 445. Fol. XXII. 



1. By the equable evolution of a circle, I mean such a gradual approach of 

 its periphery to rectitude, as that all its parts do together and equally, evolve 



* This paper, which is anonymous, has much of the manner, style, and peculiarities, of William 

 Jones, Esq. who soon afterwards made so conspicuous a figure in the Royal Society, and in the 

 mathematical world. 



