( ) Numb.\2h. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Juffgio. 1676. 
The CONTENTS. 
Account (/Virginia,^// Scimtion^Tempermre^ TroduBions, 1»^ 
habit ant Si and their mamer of planting and ordering Tobacco^ d^c. 
communicated by Mr. Thoaias Glover. Jdvertifement of a 
Degree of a Great Circle^ in Englifli meafures, Obfervations 
made of the late Eclipfe of the S un^ June r . 1 6 7 6. An Account of 
fome Books'. I. BLEMENS des ^JTHEMJT l^UES, 
cu Princifes Generaux de toutes les Sciences qui ont les GRAN- 
DEURSpour objea ; par ].?.a Paris. ILL' ART deFARLER, 
a Paris. Ul.the manner of raifingy ordering and improving Forrejl-^ 
trees* alfo how toflant, make and keep Wocds^Walks^ Avenues^ 
hawns^Hedges^ &c. With Rules how to divide Woods and Land , 
and how to meafute timber^ and other folid Bodies^by e^^fr.Cook. 
IV, and'^. the French Gardiner ; to which is annex t the Englifli 
Vineyard vindicated ; andtbe way of making and ordering Wines 
in France. 
An Account of Virginia, its Scituation^ temperature^ ProduUicns^ 
Inhabit ant s^and their man er of planting and ordering Tobacco^^c, 
Communicated by Mr. Thomas Glover, an ingenious Chiru giom 
that hath lived [ome years in that Country. 
Vir^/Wtf being a part of the Continent of America^ is diflant 
from the Lizard or Lands-end ofEnglanddi choufand Leagues, 
and is bounded on the Eaft with the main Ocean, on rhe Weft with 
thei^^^/-/^^»Mountains,on theNorth withP^/-^ wares-baiy and Ri- 
ver,and on the South with the Riverof K(^<im^ 5 the Country licih 
within a Bay called the Bay of Chifepeek ; the mouth or entrance 
whereinto is due weft,being about fix leagues in breadth, and run- 
neth up into the Country North and by Eaft about one hundred 
Leagues, continuing the forementionedbredch a great part of the 
way,but narroweth by degrees towards the, upper end about ons 
halft The water in the Channel is for the mofl: part iiine fathom,but 
itifome places not above feven : The Southernmoft Cape of t! is 
Bay lieth in 37 degrees and odd minutes North-latitude^and within 
M m m m thj 
