8 Fopgrs of 3oJ>n Sosscljm. 



Prices of all Neceffaries for furniihing a Planter and his 

 Family at his firft Coming; a Defcription of the Country, 

 Natives, and Creatures; the Government of the Countrey 

 as it is now pofTefTed by the Englifh, &c. A large Chron- 

 ological Table of the moft Remarkable PafTages, from the 

 firft Difcovering of the Continent of America to the Year 

 1673.". i2mo, pp. 279. Reprinted in the third volume 01 

 the Third Series of the Collections of the Hiftorical So- 

 ciety; which edition is quoted here. A large part of the 

 " Voyages " is taken up with obfervations relating to natu- 

 ral hiftory; and it is quite likely that the author tried in 

 this fecond work to fupply fome of the defects of his 

 " Rarities." Compare efpecially the accounts of beafts of 

 the earth, of birds, and of fifhes ; each of which is better 

 done in the " Voyages." 



JofTelyn was, it appears, a man of polite reading. He 

 quotes Lucan, Pliny, and Du Bartas; he has Latin and 

 Italian proverbs; he is acquainted with the writings of 

 Mr. Perkins, that famous divine; with Van Helmont; 

 with Sandys's "Travels," and Capt. John Smith's. His 

 curioiity in picking up " excellent medecines " points to an 

 acquaintance with phyfic; of his practifing which, there 

 occur, indeed (pp. 48, 58, 63), feveral inftances. 1 Nor is 



1 And see the Voyages, p, 187, for an account of a " Barbarie-Moor under 

 cure" of the author, when he " perceived that the Moor had one skin more than 

 Englishmen. The skin that is basted to the flesh is bloudj, and of the same 

 Azure colour with the veins, but deeper than the colour of our Europeans' veins. 

 Over this is an other skin, of a tawny colour, and upon that [the] Epidermis, or 

 Cuticula, — the flower of the skin, which is that Snake's cast; and this is tawny 

 also. The colour of the blew skin mingling with the tawny, makes them appear 



