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other quadrupeds that can ascend the trees, are observed 

 crouched among their top branches; hungry in the midst of 

 abundance, although they see floating around them the animals 

 on which they usually prey. They dare not venture to swim 

 to them. Fatigued by the exertions which they have made in 

 reaching dry land, they will there stand the hunter's fire, as if 

 to die by a baU were better than to perish amid the waste 

 of waters. On occasions like this, all these animals are shot by 

 hundreds. 



"Opposite the city of Natchez, which stands on a bluff 

 bank of considerable elevation, the extent of inundated land 

 is immense, the greater portion of the tract lying between the 

 Mississippi and the Ked Eiver, which is more than thirty miles, 

 being under water." 



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