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of lime in its compofition ; for the bones were perfe(£tly found and 

 firm. The Ikull appeared preternaturally comprefTed at top, which 

 made the Jinciput very low. There was fome appearance of a cut 

 on the occipital bone, as if made with a fharp weapon. By the fire 

 of the bones, they were conjciflured to have belonged to a man of 

 large ftature. At the head and feet lay two unglazed earthen pots, 

 ihaped fomewhat like a canoe, and well wrought ; one of them was 

 broken in taking it out ; but the other was prefcrved intire, and 

 found to contain a fmall quantity of black earth, refembling foot. 

 Thebody had probably been interred not kfs than two hundred years. 

 This parifh contains two remarkable cafcades. The lefl'cr is 

 formed by a branch of Rio Alto, which is fuppofed to re-emerge 

 (after a fubterraneous current of feveral miles) between Roaring 

 River Plantation and Menzie's Bog. The hills in this part are 

 many of them compofed of a flala£lite matter; by whofe eafy fo- 

 lution, the waters, oozing through the rocks, are copioufly charged 

 with it, fo that they incruftate all bodies depofited in them. This 

 river rifes at a confiderable elevation above the fea's level, and at a 

 great diftance from the coaft, and continues its courfe between the 

 hills fucceffively broad or contracted, as they on each fide ap- 

 proach nearer, or recede further from, one another. In one of the 

 more extended fpaces, it expands its water in a gentle dei'cent: 

 among a very curious group of anchovy pear-trees, whofe fpreading 

 roots intercept the fhallow ftream in a multitude of difi'erent direc- 

 tions. The water, thus retarded, depofits its grofier contents, 

 which in lengrh of time have formed various incruftations, around 

 as many ciftcrns, fpread in beautifuL ranks, gradually rifing one 

 above another, and bearing no ill refemblance to a magnificent 

 flight of ileps in ruftic work, leading up to the enchanted palace 

 of fome puillant giant of romance, A Oieet of water, tranfpa.'-ent 

 as cryftal, conforming to the bend of the (teps, overfpreads their 

 furface ; and, as the rays of light, or fun-fliine, play between tlie 

 \vaving branches of the trees, it defcends glittering with a thoufand 

 variegated tints. The incruflation in many parts is folid enough 

 to bear the weight of a man; in others it is fo thin, that fome' 

 perfons, whofe curiofity led them to venture too far, have fud- 

 denly found themiclves plunged up to the middle in a cold refer- 



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