TRAVELS IN 
prove infufficient, after being haltered, a pack- 
horfe-man catches the tip end of one of his ears be- 
twixt his teeth and pinches it, when inftantly the 
furious ftrong creature, trembling, ftands perfectly 
until he is loaded. 
Our caravan confiding of about twenty men and 
fixty horfes, we made a formidable appearance, 
having now little to apprehend from predatory bands 
or out-laws. 
This day's journey was for the mod part over 
high gravelly ridges, and on the mod elevated hills, 
appeared emerging out of the earth, rocky cliffs of 
a dark reddifli brown colour ; their composition 
feemed to be a coarfe, fandy, ferruginous concrete, 
but fo firmly cemented as to conftitute a perfect hard 
Hone or rock, and appeared to be excavated or worn 
into cavities and furrows by the violence of the darn- 
ing billows and rapid currents of the ocean, which 
heretofore probably warned them ; there were how- 
ever drata or veins in thefe rocks, of a finer com- 
pofition and compact confidence, and feemed pon- 
derous rich iron ore. A little depth below the 
fandy gravelly furface, lies a ftratum of very com- 
pacl: reddifli yellow clay and fragments of ochre. 
The trees and fbrubs common on thefe gravelly 
ridges are as follows, Diofpyros, Quercus rubra, 
CK nigra, (X tinctoria or great Black Oak, alba, 
CX lobata, poll: W hite Oak, Ch incana, foliis ova- 
libus integerrimis fubtus incanis, Pinus lutea, Pinus 
tasda, foliis geminatis et trim?, drobilo ovato bre- 
vi, cortice rimofo, Pinus paluftris, foliis trinis lon- 
gifTimis, ftrobilo elongata, Cornus Florida, Andro- 
meda arborea, NyiTa fylvatica, Juglans hiccory, 
Prunus padus, &c, Ofherbaces, Soiidago, Eupa- 
torium ? 
