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Negroes, and fmall ftock belonging to it. Near the Milk River is 

 a hot lalt-fpring, tlie waters of which, ibnie writers liave not 

 fcrupled to affirm, will coagulate the white of an egg : but this is 

 extremely fabulous. The fpring, upon examination, was found 

 very pellucid, but felt only milk-warm, and contained feveral little 

 ftriped fi(h of a fpecies fimilar to what are obferved in Salt River ; 

 which is an inconteftable proof, that the water is never in a ftate of 

 ebullition. The principles of this water have not as yet been afcer- 

 tained by any analyfis ; but it is pretty evident, that the predomi- 

 nant fait is marine. It has proved very efficacious in cleanling and 

 healing foul ulcers, and removing cachedlic Iwellings of the legs 

 and feet, externally applied. 



This ifland contains the three different kinds of heights, diftin- 

 guiflied in Ireland by the words, Ktiock, figtiifying an infulated hill, 

 or one uncoui:ie£ted with any range ; Slieve, a craggy mountain, 

 gradually afcending, and continued in feveral ridges ; and Be'mn, 

 a pinnacle, or mountain of the firfl magnitude, riiing in the 

 midft of a chain of high lands, and ending in a fliarp, abrupt 

 precipice. Of the hrft fpecies, which fome authors have com- 

 pared to eggs fet in fait, is the Round Hill in this parifli, formerly 

 called by the Spaniards Pan de Botillo, about nine miles Weft from 

 Carlifle, and two North from the fea. One of the like kind, re- 

 fembling a fugar-loaf in its (hape, Ifands near the Ihore in St. 

 David's. There are likewife feveral in Clarendon, and other 

 pariflies. 



Otf the coaft there is a good fifhery ; and fome marine animals, 

 extremely curious and remarkable, have been hauled afliore here 

 by the Negroes in their feines. Among the reft, a few years ago, 

 a Sierra Marina, or fea-unicorn, was caught entangled in a net at 

 the mouth of Swift River, and required lix ftout Negroes to drag 

 it out of the water. It meafured, from the point of the fword to 

 the tip of the tail, upwards of fourteen feet, and weighed 

 near fourteen hundred pounds. Seventeen eggs, about the fize of a 

 man's fift, were taken out of the belly ; and, foon after it was 

 brought upon the land, it dilgorged fix young ones, of two feet 

 length each, one of which, beuig put into the fea, fwam imme- 

 diately away. From the liver were extraded about twelve gallons 



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