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A place in the great Swamp, usually so called, from 

 its low, hollow situation, overgrown with pine and hem- 

 lock trees of an enormous size, that almost shut out the 

 light of day. 



Note 10— Page 20. 



Of panthers trapt 



Our host made himself very merry by relating to us 

 an anecdote of one of his neighbors, living ten or twelve 

 miles off, who, having fixed his large steel traps, in the 

 evening, returned to the spot next morning, when to his 

 terror he saw two panthers (F. Couguar) snrrounding a 

 trap in which a very large one was taken by the leg. — 

 Afraid to hazard a shot, least the surviving one who wa* 

 at liberty might attack him, he hurried home, loaded a- 

 nother gun and gave it to his wife, an intrepid amazon, 

 who immediately followed him to the scene. Arrived 

 within forty or fifty yards, the hunter presented to take 

 aim, but was so agitated with terror that he found himself 

 altogether unable. His wife instantly knelt down before 

 him, ordering him to rest the rifle on her shoulder, which 

 he did, and by this expedient succeeded in killing tba 

 whole three. 



Note 16— Page 20. 

 -arid wildcats he had oft engaged. 



