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I fhall caft them into this form: i. Birds. 2. Beafts. 3. 
Fifhes. 4. Serpents and Infe6ts. 5. Plants, of thefe, 1. 
fuch Plants as are common with us, 2. of fuch Plants as 
are proper to the country, 3. of fuch Plants as are proper 
to the Country and have no name known to us, 4. of fuch 
Plants as have fprung up lince the EngliJJi Planted and 
kept Cattle there; 5. of fuch Garden Herbs (amongft us) 
as do thrive there and of fuch as do not. 6. Of Stones, 
Minerals, Metals, and Earths. 
He Humming Bird, the leaft of all Birds, little bigger 
X than a Dor, of variable glittering Colours, they feed 
upon Honey, which they fuck out of BloiToms [7] and 
Flowers with their long Needle-like Bills; they fleep all 
Winter, and are not to be feen till the Spring, at which 
time they breed in little Nefts, made up like a bottom of 
foft, Silk-like matter, their Eggs no bigger than a white 
Peafe, they hatch three or four at a time, and are proper 
to this Country. 
1 There is a much fuller account — to be noticed again — of our birds, in the 
Voyages, pp. 95-103. Wood's (N. E. Prospect, chap, viii.) is also curious. In 
the notes which immediately follow, on the birds, beasts, fishes, and reptiles, the 
oldest writers on our natural history will be found often to explain or illustrate 
each other. 
Firft, Of Birds. 
The Humming Bird. 
