JOURNEY THROUGH JERSEY 21 



on rollers, oxen hitched before, which animals are much 

 used in this region for draught. We passed on through 

 a very pleasant country of low hills, and already be- 

 gan to encounter the red soil of Jersey, known gener- 

 ally by that name in America. On the surface this ap- 

 pears to be a weathered ferruginous clayey-slate * 

 showing certain veins. Farm and manor-houses were 

 numerous on the road, in appearance kept in good 

 order, and bearing evidences of attention and industry, 

 more so indeed than we had been accustomed to see 

 about York and on Long Island. Mr. Morgan who 

 formerly spent much time, more to the north, as a land 

 surveyor assured us that he had often seen dogs after 

 baiting hedgehogs stuck through, muzzle and ears, 

 with the quills of those beasts, and that the hedgehog 

 it is believed has the faculty of looseing its quills in 

 emergencies, but that it is not true, as asserted, that the 

 beast can shoot quills forth at distant objects. On 

 account of their exceeding smoothness and the force 

 drawing together the wounded parts both in men and 

 animals, the hedgehog quills, it has been observed, find 

 deep lodgment in the cellular tissue, and often must be 

 taken out with the knife. 



From Bridgetown to Brunswick it is 16 miles over 

 a gentle succession of pleasant valleys and hills. 

 Everywhere a rather vivid green adorns the soil, which 

 in this region for the most part of the year presents a 



* Vid. Kalm. Reise. Ft 2, p. 367 who calls this soil red lime- 

 stone very much resembling that found in Sweden at Kinne- 

 kulle and probably marmor stratarium of Linnaeus. But this 

 Jersey soil does not effervesce under acids, and does not con- 

 tain the petrificata copiosissima of Linnaeus' description; and 

 besides the surface is not harder than the subsoil. 



