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Tobacco. JVicotiana. 

 ' Maize. Zea mays. 



Round potatoes. Solanum tuberosum. 



Pumpkins. Cucurbita pepo. 



Clymings. Cucurbita verrucosa. 



Squashes. Cucurbita melopepo. 



There is an infinitude of other plants and flowers, 

 for an enumeration and scientific description of which 

 I must refer to the Flora Virginica of our great bota- 

 nist, Dr Clayton, ])ubhshed by Gronovius at Leyden, 

 in 1762. This accurate observer was a native and resi- 

 dent of this state, j)assed a long life in exploring and 

 describing its plants, and is su[)posed to have enlarged 

 the botanical catalogue as much as almost any man 

 who has lived. 



Besides these plants, which are native, our farms pro- 

 duce wheat, rye, barley, oats, buck-wheat, broom corn, 

 and Indian corn. The climate suits rice well enough, 

 wherever the lands do. Tobacco, hemp, flax, and cot- 

 ton, are staple commodities. Indigo yields two cut- 

 tings. The silk-worm is a native, and the mulberry, 

 proper for its food, grows kindly. 



We cultivate also potatoes, both the long and tpje 

 round, turnips, carrots, parsnips, pumpkins and ground 

 nuts (Arachis.) Our grasses are lucerne, st. foin, bur- 

 net, timotiiy, ray and orchard grass ; red, white and 

 yellow clover ; greenswerd, blue grass and crab grass. 



The gardens yield musk-melons, water-melons, to- 

 matos, okra, pomegranates, figs, and the esculent plants 

 of Eurof)e. 



The orchards produce apples, pears, cherries, quin- 

 ces, peaches, nectarines, apricots, almonds and plums. 



Our quadrupeds have been mostly described by Lin- 

 naeus and Mons. de Bnffon. Of these the mammoth, 

 or big buffalo, as called by the Indians, must certainly 

 have been the largest. Their tradition is, that he was 

 carnivorous, and still exists in the northern parts of 

 America. A delegation of warriors from the Delaware 

 tribe having visited the governor of Virginia, during 

 the revolution, on matters of business, after these had 



