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J77?- Tlie only animals of the reptile kind obferved here, and 



found in the woods, were brown fnakes two feet long, with 

 whitifh ftripes on the back and fides ; which are harmlefs, 

 as we often faw the natives carry them alive in their hands; 

 and brownifh water-lizards, with a tail exa(5lly like that 

 of an eel, which frequented the fmall Handing pools about 

 the rocks. 



The infe(5t tribe feem to be more numerous. For though 

 the feafon, which is peculiarly fitted to their appearing 

 abroad was only beginning, we faw four or five different 

 forts of butterflies, none of which were uncommon ; a good 

 many humble-bees ; fome of our common goofeberry 

 moths ; two or three forts of flies ; a few beetles ; and fome 

 mufquiiocs, which, probably, may be more numerous and 

 troublefome in a country fo full of wood, during the 

 Summer, though at this time they did little raifchief. 



As to the mineral fubftanccs in this country, though we 

 found both iron and copper here, there is little reafon to be- 

 lieve that either of them belong to the place. Neither 

 were the ores of any metal feen, if we except a coarfe, red> 

 earthy, or ochry fubftance, ufed by the natives in paint- 

 ing themfelvcs, which probably may contain a little 

 iron ; with a white and a black pigment ufed for the fame 

 purpofc. But we did not procure fpecimens of them, and 

 therefore cannot pofitively determine what are their compo- 

 nent parts. 



Befides the flonc or rock that conflitutcs the mountains 

 and fliores, which fomctimes contains pieces of very coarfe 

 quartz, we found, amongll the natives things made of a 

 hard black ^^'Yz;«V^, though not remarkably compadl. or fine 

 grained; a greyifli whctllone; the common oilftoneof our 

 I carpenters, 



