Cunningham. 6t 
and an account of the Ifle of Chufan^ which 
was printed in the Philofophical Tranfa^lions, 
N° 280. voL xxiii. p. 1201. It conveys 
many interefting particulars to the Englijh 
reader^ relating to the inhabitants, their 
fifheries, agriculture, and arts. He correfta 
feveral miftakes of Father Martini, and 
Le Compte; and is, I believe, the firft 
Englip writer, who gives an accurate hif- 
tory of the Tea Tree: which, although but 
fhort, is authenticated by the lateft defcrip- 
tion given us by Thunberg, in the Flo- 
ra yaponica,'' 
Befides this account of Chufan^ I find 
the following papers, written by Mr. Cun- 
ningham, and printed in the Philofophical 
TranfaBions, 
A Catalogue of Plants and Shells, col- 
ledted on the Ifle of Afcenfion. N° 255. 
vol. xxi. p. 295. 
Obfervations on the Weather at E^nuy^ 
inChinay in 1698, 1699; with the State 
of the Barometer. N° 256. vol. xxi, 
P- 323- 
On the Declination of the Needle, and a 
Thermometrical 
