nf flaces^^growlng of their own accord, and confer 
qti^mly that tl)^ lohaHtants fuch places, were the lefs. 
taovilk io: :^^^ and ufpal a tbiog, much lefs 
could fee fISirred to Worlhip the Earthy: as a ity to be 
follicited. .with Prayers. On the contrary , that the 
Korthern parts were fprnierly wholly without Fruits, and 
that even now Defarts, Woods, and many Fields admit 
ISO cultivation, or at [eaft produce no Fruit without cu|ti« 
vation and fowln^. That inftead of Corn at thattim^ 
they had three Subftitutes, to v/hich poor people ever^ 
lioMr are wont to have recourfe, mz* The fappy put ward 
parts of the Pine and other Trees, which were wont to 
be taken off in the Spring, to be dry 'd and pounded to 
Powder, ^dly^ Acorns, now given to Swine, but then 
guarded with accurate Sandions of Laws, gdly, The 
Roots of i^i%eW///^,^ W^^ were of a grateful favour^ 
and Food forthe beft Perfons, and qow greedily hunted 
after by Swine, who root up the ground for tiiem. But 
as foon as their Anceftors can;je to know there was a more 
pkntiful growth of Fruits in the, Southern Couritries, it 
appears, from the Hifiory of Adorik^ xhH went .fprtli 
of their Co^ntry^ and took by force from elfewhere a 
Kings Daughter, who greatly delighted in Agrkuhure and 
Gardening, and brought together with her thofe Arts 
and Studies into bis Countf y. Now the firft name of this 
Virgia among them, hefays,, wasJC<7rz;^, that is, Grain, or 
Seedy becaufe ihe taught thetn how to fow, called by the 
Latim^ Cens^ the fame name being given :her Mothe;r5 
and then he tells us, how ftie came by the name, Profer^ 
pine. 
To make good wliaf ijS faid of Adorns^ Ije fays all agree 
that a certain King f<>rmerly took away a Virgin by torc^ 
and married. her. The Scalds C2^l[ him Oadeu^ the Oreeks 
Aedefsy and Aidomm ^ the Gathick Writers, BUit^i\ the 
hatins^ Plato: Again, fome of cheirs call him 
mdWej^fur foreign Writers Dis, ml Fdoms. In this 
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