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of riiy people, forming commercial fpeculations^ 
was enraptured beforehand with the profit 
they were hereafter to make. 
The mountains abounded with a fort of hare, 
fimilar in fhape and fize to that of Europe, but 
its ikin refembled that of the rabbits of our 
Warrens. We had alfo in the woods abun- 
dance of groufe, different from thofe v^lth which 
I was acquainted; partridges of the large fpecies 
called by the planters pheafants 5 and a num- 
ber of new birds, fuch as I had never feen. 
Thefe were highly valuable to my coUedion ; 
and I fpent part of my time in procuring fome 
of every kind. 
I found likev/ife many infeds and chryfa- 
lides under the bark of the mimofas, Thefe 
trees I had no where feen of fuch gigantic fea- 
ture as here : their thorns were frequently 
fixteen inches long. We read of the mimofa 
in the tranflation of Paterfon's Travels, that 
" the vaft extent of its branches, and the 
" fmoothnefs of its bark, afford a prodigious 
" multitude of birds an afylum againfl: birds of 
" prey, as well as againfl: ferpents and other 
" reptiles, which would otherwife deftroy both 
" them and their eggs." 
This fentence is written in fp confufed a. 
Qj2 manner 
