sort of Food made of Syder and small Homine,
like our Oatmeal.]

[Footnote i: Pon is Bread made of _Indian-Corn_.]

[Footnote k: Mush is a sort of hasty-pudding made with water and
_Indian_ Flower.]

[Footnote l: Homine is a dish that is made of boiled _Indian_ Wheat,
eaten with Molossus, or Bacon-Fat.]

[Footnote m: 'Tis the Custom for Servants to be obliged for four Years
to very servile work; after which time they have their Freedom.]

[Footnote n: These are the general Excuses made by _English_ Women,
which are sold, or sell themselves to _Mary-Land_.]

[Footnote o: Beds stand in the Chimney-corner in this Country.]

[Footnote p: Frogs are called _Virginia_ Bells and make (both in that
country and _Mary-Land_) during the Night, a very hoarse ungrateful
Noise.]

[Footnote q: _Kekicknitop_ is an _Indian_ Expression, and signifies no
more than this, _How do you do?_]

[Footnote r: These _Indians_ worship the Devil, and pray to him as we do
to God Almighty. 'Tis suppos'd, that _America_ was peopled from
_Scythia_ or _Tartaria_, which Borders on _China_, by reason the
_Tartarians_ and _Americans_, very much agree in their Manners, Arms and
Government. Other persons are of Opinion, that the _Chinese_ first
peopled the _West-Indies_; imagining _China_ and the Southern part of
_America_ to be contiguous. Others believe that the Phoenicians who
were very skilful Mariners, first planted a Colony in the Isles of
_America_, and supply'd the Persons left to inhabit there with Women and
all other Necessaries; till either the Death or Shipwreck of the first
Discoverers, or some other Misfortune, occasioned the loss of the
Discovery, which had been purchased by the Peril of the first
Adventurers.]

[Footnote s: Pizarro was the Person that conquer'd Peru; a Man of a most
bloody Disposition, base, treacherous, covetous and revengeful.]

[Footnote t: _Spanish_ Shoar.]

[Footnote u: There is a very bad Custom in some Colledges, of giving the
Students _A Groat ad purgandas Rhenes_, which is usually employ'd to the
use of the _Donor_.]

[Footnote v: Bears are said to live by sucking of their _Paws_,
according to the Notion of some Learned Authors.]

[Footnote w: The _Phoenicians_ were the best and boldest Saylors of
Antiquity, and indeed the only Persons, in former Ages, who durst
venture themselves on the Main Sea.]

[Footnote x: The _Priests_ argue, That our Senses in point of
_Transubstantiation_ ought not to be be