i$6 Sir Philip Skippon to Mr. Ray. 



time in Virginia^ and nine Months in Barbadoes^ 

 where he fays he has let above 10 Negroes blood 5 

 and always obferv'd the Colour to be as florid and red 

 as any European's Blood $ and that he never faw any 

 of a dark Colour, as is reprefented by the Letter the 

 Ingenious Mr. Lifter received from that Ifland. The 

 Difference in thefe t*wo Perfons Obfervations ought 

 therefore to be farther examined by Correfpondents 

 in that and other Places, (where Blacks inhabit.) 



Pur/lain, Mr. Glover fays, is alfo very common in 

 Virginia^ and troublefome too to the Tobacco Plan- 

 ters. Afar urn is much ufed by the Indians to pro- 

 voke Vomiting, and they are frequently troubled 

 with violent Colicks, which oftentimes terminate in 

 Palftes. 



Mr. Ray to Br. Lifter. . 



Dear Friend^ 



I Received yours of February 8, and have refolved 

 to follow your Advice, in adding to the Ornitho- 

 logy an Account of the Ordering of Birds for finging, 

 as alfo fomething of Falconry > and befides an Epi- 

 tome of the. Art of Fowling. To this Purpofe I fent 

 for the Books you minded me of about thole Subjefts. 

 I find that the Author of the Gentleman's Recreation^ 

 in what I have read in him, is a mere Plagiary j all 

 that he hath concerning Fowling being tranferibed out 

 of Markham's Art of Fowling, without once men- 

 tioning his Author, as you may foon find by com- 

 paring them. I fufped: the like of his Falconry. 

 What he writes of the Haggard Falcon is contra£led 

 out of Latham. When I fliall have compared the 

 reft with Latham and 'Turbervil^ I fhall be able to 

 tell you whether it be not borrowed of them. 



