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The Introduction. 
feen come from Spain, or what comes from the [land called Sut 
Tortugas near the Main of America, which is here reckoned the ftron- 
ger and better Salt. | 
Lagunas, ot great Ponds, are many here, one whereof, Rio Hoa 
Pond, receives a great deal of water by a River, which yet has no 
vifible Rivulet, or Difcharge runs from tt. 
Rivers here in the Mountains rife above, and go under ground 
again in a great many places, as ‘Rio d’ Oro falls under, and rifes a- 
bove ground above Sixteen Miles-Walk, three ot four times, and {o 
ic is in many others. 
At Abraham’s Plantation in the North-fide, is a River which has 
ftop’d it’s own Courfe by letting a fettlement fall, and petrifying its 
own bottom. 
It’s ordinary to have Cataracts, Cafcades or Precipices, in Rivers 
amongft the Mountains fifty or fixty Foot high. I have heard fome 
people have been in Curtents forc’d down thefe without hurt, The 
Water making a great Noife down {uch Precipices, gave the name to 
the roaring River in the North fide. 
The Rivers, efpecially that called the dry one, (becaufe ’tis fome- 
times dry) when it rains in the Mountains, come down with great 
force, carrying along any thing in their way. ‘Thefe Rivers have 
done dammage to feveral people by coming down, they being nor 
aware of them, it having rain’d above in the Mountains by their 
Springs, though not below them in the Plains. Many Fifh are in 
thefe Rivers, up in the Mountains, efpecially Cray-fifh, wild Hogs 
feed on them when the Springs are low. The Fifhoft are brought 
down and left in Holes, where Negroes take them by intoxicating 
them with Dogwood-bark, 
Many iallen Trees come down the Rivers, and croffing one ano- 
ther make a ftop, whereby the Neighbouring grounds {uffer great 
Inundations, this, as it is beneficial to fome, {o itis hurtful to others 
according to the wetnefs or drinefs of the Soil. , 
Mik-River, is fo called from the bertom of the River, which 
being a white Clay, has given it it's Name: it is dangerous fording 
it, becaufe the Fords remove as the water puts the Sand by it’s Cur- 
rent on one fide or other. 
Rocks of incredible bignefs are brought down by the im petuofity 
of Rivers which fometimes almoft ftop their ancient Courfes making 
them run another way. 
_ By this fteepnels of the Hills, and confequently impetuous mo- 
tion of the Current, are made the very fteep and deep Gullies and 
fides of Rivers, fo that the Banks or Brinks of a River are fome- 
da a great many yards perpendicularly high above the waters 
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