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Fogajjes of Sofjn feselgtu 
Prices of all Neceflaries for furnifhing a Planter and his 
Family at his firft Coming; a Defcription of the Country, 
Natives, and Creatures; the Government of the Countrey 
as it is now poffeffed by the Englifh, &c. A large Chron- 
ological Table of the moft Remarkable PafTages, from the 
firft Difcovering of the Continent of America to the Year 
1673." i2mo, pp. 279. Reprinted in the third volume ot 
the Third Series of the Collections of the Hiftorical So- 
ciety; which edition is quoted here. A large part of the 
" Voyages " is taken up with obfervations relating to natu- 
ral hiftory; and it is quite likely that the author tried in 
this fecond work to fupply fome of the defects of his 
" Rarities." Compare efpecially the accounts of beafts of 
the earth, of birds, and of fifties; each of which is better 
done in the " Voyages." 
Joffelyn was, it appears, a man of polite reading. He 
quotes Lucan, Pliny, and Du Bartas; he has Latin and 
Italian proverbs; he is acquainted with the writings of 
Mr. Perkins, that famous divine; with Van Helmont; 
with Sandys's "Travels," and Capt. John Smith's. His 
curiofity in picking up " excellent medecines " points to an 
acquaintance with phyfic; of his practifing which, there 
occur, indeed (pp. 48, 58, 63), feveral inflances. 1 Nor is 
1 And see the Voyages, p, 187, for an account of a " Barbarie-Moor under 
cure" of the author, when he " perceived that the Moor had one skin more than 
Englishmen. The skin that is basted to the flesh is bloudy, and of the same 
Azure colour with the veins, but deeper than the colour of our Europeans' veins. 
Over this is an other skin, of a tawny colour, and upon that [the] Epidermis, or 
Cuticula, — the flower of the skin, which is that Snake's cast; and this is tawny 
also. The colour of the blew skin mingling with the tawny, makes them appear 
