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Index Aaron’s Creek. See Tewahominy Creek Abernathy, Robert, Jr., 472 Achilles, 160, 311 Acosta, José de, 322 Acworth, Jacob, Sir, 276 Adamites, 84, 262 Adams, Percy G., 12, 54 Adams, Stephen, 310, 311 Addison, Joseph, 8, 26, 444 Adonis River (Syria), 133, 299 Aelian, 203, 273, 293, 300, 302, 307, 318, 321, 331, 332 Aesop, 92, 267, 321, 331, 332 Africans, enslaved, 30, 32; as runaways, 89, 265; “Astrolabe’s Negro,” 367, 409, 474; unnamed “Mulatto Wench,” 388. See also “Tom” Albemarle, George Monck, duke of, 217– 230 Albemarle Parish, N.C., 451 Albemarle Precinct, N.C., 266, 447, 465 Albemarle Sound, 80, 103, 104, 107, 109, 112, 200 Alexander, William, Sir, 71 Alexander the Great, 160, 196, 311, 328 Allegheny River, 170 Allen, Arthur, 256, 441–442 Allen, Elizabeth (née Bassett), 255, 441– 442; as “Mrs. Capricorn,” 354–355 Allen, John, Col., 77, 255–256, 282, 439, 466–467; and 1710 survey, 255, 421, 466; as “Capricorn,” 280, 354, 441 Allen, Katherine Baker (“Widdow Allen”), 20, 77, 256, 355–356, 442 Allen, Robert, 242, 354, 435 Allestree, Richard, 278 Almanacs, 352, 416, 439 Alpaca (paco), 186, 215, 321–322 Alston, Charles, Dr., 292 Alston, John, Maj., 369, 372, 448–449; daughter of (Mary, Elizabeth, or Sarah), 373, 449 Alvord, Clarence Walworth, 313, 335 Amadas, Philip, Capt., 65, 244 Ambergris, 194, 326–327 American Philosophical Society, 43, 272, 475–478 Amy, Thomas, 308, 455 Anabaptists, 73 Anacreon, 454 Anderson, Charles (Carolus), 114, 285, 378, 450 Anderson, Douglas, 11, 343, 347 Anderson’s Pills, 416, 424, 459 Andros, Edmund, Sir, 70, 249, 282 Animals, Virginia-Carolina: alligator, 91, 207–208; bat, 176, 192, 317, 325; boar, wi1d, 45, 394; buffalo, 134–135, 137, 168, 199–200, 300, 309, 330–331, 396, 404, 415, 424; cat, wild, 134, 299, 395; deer, 168, 313–314; elk, 168, 313–314, 415; fox, 107; moose, 313–314; opossum, 175–176, 317; otter, 87, 204, 333; panther, 91, 134, 155–156, 173, 177, 299, 309, 410; polecat, 214–215, 340; porcupine, 215, 340; raccoon , 165, 313; terrapin, 194, 325–326; wolf, 107, 139, 173, 177, 182, 203, 279, 301 —bear, 132, 145–146, 151, 155, 163, 184– 185, 195, 312, 406–407, 413, 420–421; oil of, 117, 192, 290, 302; digestibility and flavor of meat and fat of, 132, 145, 297, 307, 406; “dog-kind,” 145, 162, 307, 312; folklore of, 146, 162, 163, 185, 300, 307, 312, 321, 413; meat of, as aphrodisiac, 176–177, 211, 425; foreign, 195, 328; dung of, used in washing, 195, 328; as prey to panthers, 410 —beaver, 87, 133–134, 202–203, 362, 395, 425, 456; traditional folklore of, 134, 486 } Index 202, 203, 458; tail of, as delicacy, 203, 332; method of trapping, 299, 331; castoreum of, 331–332 —rattlesnake, 115, 121, 125, 128, 378, 392, 393; and charming of squirrels, 61, 130, 295–296, 393; experiments with, 125, 292, 293; antipathy of, toward plants, 125, 293; method of killing, 293 —squirrel, 61, 62, 205, 313; and use of tail as sail, 62, 204, 333; grey, 128, 167, 204; fox, 134, 167, 395; flying, 167; ground, 167 Anne (queen of England), 9, 71, 73, 230, 253, 360, 444 Antiochus, 183, 320 Appamattuck (Appomatox) River, 128, 170, 215, 468 Appleby, John H., 324 Apulia (Italy), 196–197 Aramanchy River, 206 Argall, Samuel, Sir, 71, 250 Argyll, John Campbell, duke of, 6, 49, 50, 51 Aristotle, 261, 302, 304, 305, 331 Arner, Robert D., 8, 26–27 “Arsmart, Dr.,” 355, 441 Ashley, Lord. See Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of Assamoosick Bridge, 388 Assamoosick Swamp, 453 “Astrolabe.” See Mayo, William Athenaeus, 294 Athenian Oracle, 256, 335 Atlas Geographicus, 333 Ausband, Stephen Conrad, 309, 316, 456, 458 Avernus, 96, 270–271 Babb, Valerie, 46 Baboons, 141, 204, 302–303, 334, 341 Babylon, 187, 323 Back Bay, 18, 19, 85–86, 362 Bacon, Francis, Sir, 443 Bacon, Nathaniel, 29 Bacon’s Castle, 441 Bacon’s Rebellion, 29, 284, 441, 450, 452 Baglivi, Giorgio, 329 Bahama Islands, 194, 260, 300, 463 Bailey, Nicholas, 298 Bainton (Benton), Epaphroditus, 128, 273, 295, 393, 455 Baker, Angelica (née Bray), 449 Baker, Henry, Sr., 442 Baker, Henry, Jr., Capt., 369, 373, 376–377, 442, 448, 449 Baker, Ruth (née Chancey), 449 Baker, William, 355, 356, 369, 442 Ball, Richard, 439 Ballance, (Richard, Robert, Samuel, or William), 90, 265–266, 364, 447 Baltimore, George Calvert, Lord, 72, 250 Banister, John, 8, 11, 301, 453; as source or analogue, 286, 288, 290, 300, 301...

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