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Earth, under which they fhould petrefie : But 

 not to launch forth too far into thofe Dif- 

 putes, fince I mufl: modeftly remember to 

 whom I write. Often, in the loofer Banks 

 of Shells and Earth, are found perfect Teeth 

 petrefied, fome whereof I have feen, could 

 not be lefs than two or three Inches long, 

 and above an Inch broad : Tho' they were 

 not Maxilary Teeth, the part that one might 

 fuppofe grew out of the Jaw, was polifli'd, 

 and black, almoft as Jett; the part which 

 had been faften'd in the Jaw and Gums, was 

 brown, and not fo Ihiningly polifli'd, or 

 fmooth ; if they were, as they feemed to be, 

 really Teeth, I fuppofe, they muft have beea 

 of Fiflies. The back-Bone of a Whale, and 

 as I remember, they told me of fome ot the 

 Ribs, were digg'd out of the fide of a Hill, 

 feveral Yards deep in the Ground, about 

 four Miles diftant from James Toxvn^ aad the 

 River. Mr. Banifter^ a Gentleman pretty 

 curious in thofe things, Ihew'd me likewife 

 the Joynt of a Whale's back-Bone, and fe- 

 veral Teeth, fome whereof, he faid, were 

 found in Hills beyond the Falls of James Ri- 

 ver, at lea ft, a hundred and fifty Miles up 

 into the Country. The "Soil in general is 

 Sandy : I had defigned, and I think it might 

 be worth a critical Remark, to obferve, the 

 difference of Soils feem appropriated to the 

 feveral forts of Tobacco : For there is not 

 only the two diftind forts of a fweet-fcent- 

 ed, and Aranoko Tobacco, but of each of 

 thefe be feveral forts much different, the 

 Seeds whereof are known by diftind Names, 

 they having given them the Naanes of thofe 



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