partridges, doves of various kinds, wild-geese, ducks, teals, cranes, herons of many kinds not known in Europe.  There are great varieties of eagles and hawks, and great numbers of small birds, particularly the rice-bird, which is very like the ortolan.  There are rattlesnakes, but not near so frequent as is generally reported.  There are several species of snakes, some of which are not venomous.  There are crocodiles, porpoises, sturgeon, mullet, cat-fish, bass, drum, devil-fish; and many species of fresh-water fish that we have not in Europe; and oysters upon the sea-islands in great abundance.

What is most troublesome, there, are flies and gnats, which are very numerous near the rivers; but, as the country is cleared, they disperse and go away.

The vegetables are innumerable; for all that grow in Europe, grow there; and many that cannot stand in our winters thrive there.

APPENDIX.  This portion of the work contains additional notes, original documents, and notices of some of the distinguished friends of Oglethorpe.

APPENDIX

No.  I

FAMILY OF OGLETHORPE.

The following genealogical memoranda are taken principally, from a note in Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, Vol.  II. p. 17, on his having given the title of a book ascribed to the subject of the foregoing memoir

“This truly respectable gentleman was the descendant of a family very anciently situated at Oglethorpe, in the parish of Bramham, in the West Riding of the County of York; one of whom was actually Reeve of the County (an office nearly the same with that of the present high-sheriff) at the time of the Norman Conquest.  The ancient seat of Oglethorpe continued in the family till the Civil Wars, when it was lost for their loyalty; and several of the same name died at once in the bed of honor in the defence of monarchy, in a battle near Oxford.

“William Oglethorpe, (son of William) was born in 1588.  He married Susanna, daughter of Sir William Sutton, Knight and sister to Lord Lexington.  He died in November, 1634 leaving two children, Sulton, born 1612, and Dorothy (who afterwards married the Marquis of Byron, a French nobleman,) born 1620.

“Sutton Oglethorpe, being fined L20,000 by the Parliament, his estates at Oglethorpe, and elsewhere, were sequestered, and afterwards given to General Fairfax, who sold them to Robert Benson of Bramham, father of Lord Bingley of that name.  Sutton Oglethorpe had two sons, Sutton, and Sir Theophilus.  Sutton was Stud-master to King Charles II.; and had three sons, namely, Sutton, Page to King Charles II.; John, Cornet of the Guards; and Joseph, who died in India.