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Btc citch'd at the fills of Riva?. All tfie 
Rivers of note in the Ccuntrey have two 
or three defpcrate falls difiant one from a- 
nother for fome miks, for it being rifing 
ground from the Sea andmouhfainous with- 
in land, the Rivers having their Originals 
from great lakes, and haltning to the Sea, 
in their pafDge meeeing with Rocks that 
are not to eatily worn aws^y, as the loofe 
earthie mould beneath the Rock, makes a 
fall of the wafer in lomc Rivers as high as 
a houfc ; you would think it ftrange to fec^ 
ycasdmirc if you faw the bold Bdrharians 
in their ]?ght Canows rufh down the fwift 
and headlong Itream with dcfperate fpeed, 
but with (XccUcnt dixterity, guiding his 
Canow that ieidom or never it (hoots under 
water or overtures, if it do they cm fwim 
naturally, ftriking their pswes under their 
throat like a dog^ and not fpreading their 
Arms as we do ^ they turn their Canons a« 
gain apd go info it in the water, 
' Their Merchandize are their beads ^ 
which are their money 5 of thefe there arc 
two forts, blew Beads and white Beads, the 
firft is their Gold, the laft their Silver^ thcfi 
they woik out of certain (hells fo .cunning-- 
ly that neither Jm r\ot'ldcv\\ can. counter-^ 
feit^ ihey dril rhem and (hing thci^^and 
make many cunous woiks with ihcm fo a- 
dorn 
