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earnest : and after some time her daughter, viz. the infant's mother, seeing she 

 was provided with such an extraordinary and tender nurse, was emboldened to 

 bid fair for an increase of issue, which till then she knew not how to nourish or 

 provide for. Accordingly, at the end of 2 years, she brought forth another 

 child ; on which the grandmother weaned the first, and suckled the latter ; 

 which she had done for the last 2 years, and continued to do. And this infant, 

 in Dr. S.'s presence, took the nipple with as much eagerness, and seeming de- 

 light, as he ever perceived in a child of 2 years old ; and at it plainly performed 

 the actions of suction and deglution. The 2 children, both girls, are, as to 

 constitution, such as he could wish to the dearest friend ; plump and firm 

 in flesh; in complexion cleanly, fair and healthy, and in temper brisk and 

 sprightly ; considering the lowness of their condition and education, and the 

 mean diet of the nurse. 



When this good woman came to town, which was near 2 years before, her 

 milk abounded to that degree in both breasts, that, to convince the unbelieving, 

 she would frequently spout it above a yard from her : a particular which, among 

 others, the good man and woman of the house, and others of the neighbour- 

 hood, likewise assured him of. At the above date her left breast became dry, 

 and she had no great quantity in the right: but what remained was as good milk 

 as could be desired in a nurse. The poor woman seemed perfectly honest and 

 artless, and even tended strongly to dotage. 



^ Letter from the Rev. Mr. John Clayton, afterwards Dean of Kildare in 

 Ireland, to Dr. Grew, in Answer to several Queries relating to Firginia, sent 

 to him hy that Gentleman, A. D. l687 *• N°454, p. 143. 



Having observed many mistakes in people's notions of Virginia, when speak- 

 ing of the natives, which have arisen from the want of making a distinction in 

 their expressions, when they speak of the English or whites, born there, 

 thence called natives ; and the aborigines of the country ; Mr. C. therefore 

 notices, that when he speaks of the natives in general, he means only the 

 Indians. 



As therefore to the 1st query : — ^Their wiochist, that is, their priest, is ge- 

 nerally their physician ; and is a person of the greatest honour and esteem 

 among them, next to their king, or to their great war-captain. 



2. Nature is their great apothecary, each physician furnishing himself, ac- 

 cording to his skill, with herbs, or the leaves, fruit, roots, or barks of trees ; 



• This may serve as a sequel to the accounts of Virginia formerly given by Mr. Clayton. See these 

 Transactions, N" 201, 205, 206, 210.— Orig. 



