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afcended upwards of ten or twelve feet, and conti- 
nued flaming about fifteen minutes, when it was 
gradually extinguifhed by the deluges of rain that 
fell upon it. 
I faw here a remarkably large turkey of the na- 
tive wild breed : his head was above three feet 
from the ground when he flood erect ; he was a 
flately beautiful bird, of a very dark dufky brown 
colour, the tips of the feathers of his neck, breafl, 
back, and moulders, edged with a copper colour, 
which in a certain expofure looked like burnifhed 
gold, and he feemed not infenfible of the fplendid 
appearance he made. He was reared from an egg, 
found in the foreft, and hatched by a hen of the 
common domeftic fowl. 
Our turkey of America is a very different fpe- 
cies from the meleagris of Afia and Europe ; they 
are nearly thrice their fize and weight. I nave feen 
feveral that have weighed between twenty and thirty 
pounds, and fome have been killed that weighed 
near forty. They are taller, and have a much 
longer neck proportionally, and likewife longer 
legs, and fland more erect ; they are alfo very dif- 
ferent in colour. Ours are all, male and female, 
of a dark brown colour, not having a black feather 
on them ; but the male exceedingly fplendid, with 
changeable colours. In other particulars they differ 
not. 
The tempeft being over, I waited till the floods 
of rain had run off the ground, then took leave of 
my friends, and departed. The air was now cool 
and falubrious, and riding feven or eight miles, 
through a pine foreft, I came to Sapello bridge, 
to »/hich the fait tide flows. I here flopped, at 
Mr. 
