EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



In the evening we encamped near the Tempatee 

 Creek ; where we made large fires, and built comfort- 

 able huts ; thus this night we flept prote(5led from 

 the wet. Here we found the beft water I ever tailed: 

 and in the camp I faw two remarkable lizards, the one 

 called the devil of the woods, and the other agama, in this 

 country. The firil is an ugly fmall lizard of a deep brown 

 or blackifh colour, which runs with amazing fwiftnefs up 

 and down the trees ; it has no fcales, a large head, and it 

 is faid to bite, which is fuppofed to be an uncommon pro- 

 perty in a lizard. The other is called the Mexican came- 

 leon, which is remarkably fplendid ; and, like others of 

 the kind, is endued with the property of changing its 

 colour; but of its nature and qualities I can fay little 

 more, having never had the opportunity of a clofe ex- 

 amination. In Surinam there is alfo a fpecies of lizard, 

 known by the name of falamander, which alfo T never 

 faw. 



On the 6th we marched again, keeping due weft 

 till twelve o'clock, through very heavy rain and deep 

 water ; when we changed our courfe to the north, and 

 paired over very high mountains, by many fuppofed to 

 be pregnant with treafure. 



" Rocks rich with gems, and mountains bright with nnineSj 



That on the high equator ridgy rife j 

 * Where nnany a burfting ftream auriferous plays : 

 ** Majeftic woods of every vigorous green, 



Stage above ftage high waving o'er the hills." 



Thomson, 

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