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TRAVELS IN 
cray-fifh ; in this manner the war feemed to be con- 
tinual. 
The gold-fifth is about the fize of the anchovy, 
nearly four inches long, of a neat llender form ; the 
head is covered with a falade of an ultramarine blue, 
the back of a reddifh brown, the fides and belly of 
a flame, or of the colour of a fine red lead ; a nar- 
row du&y line runs along each fide, from the gills 
to the tail ; the eyes are large, with the iris like 
burniihed gold. This branch of Broad River is 
about twelve yards wide, and has two, three, and 
four feet depth of water, and winds through a fer- 
tile vale, almoft overfhadowed on one fide by a 
ridge of high hills, well timbered with oak, hic- 
cory, liriodendron, magnolia acuminata, pavia fyl- 
vatica, and on their rocky fummits, fagus caftanea 
rhododendron ferrugineum, kalmia latifolia, cornus 
Florida, &c. 
One of our Indian young men, this evening, 
caught a very large falmon trout, weighing about 
fifteen pounds, which he prefented to the colonel, 
who ordered it to be ferved up for fupper. The In- 
dian (truck this fifth, with a reed harpoon, pointed 
very fharp, barbed, and hardened by the fire. The 
fifth lay clofe under the fteep bank, which the Indian 
difcovered and (truck with his reed ; inftantly the fifh 
darted off with it, whiift the Indian purfued, with- 
out extracting the harpoon, and with repeated 
thrufts drowned it, and then dragged it to fhore. 
After leaving Broad River, the land rifes very 
fenfibiy, and the country being mountainous, our 
progrefs became daily more difficult and flow ; yet 
the varied fcen^s of pyramidal hills, high forefts, 
rich vales, ferpentine rivers, and cataracts, fully 
coinpenfated 
