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bled the tayl of a 6fli with a broad fane at the end of if. 
On the Bay and Rivers feed fo many wild fowl, as in winter time 
they do in fome places cover the water for two wiles i the chief of 
which are wild Srvam and Geefe, Cormorants, Brants^ ShieU-forpl^ 
Duck and MaSard, teal, Wigeo»s,mt\\ many others. 
There likewife keep in the Rivers Bevers and Otters] the Bevers 
havetheir teeth fo ftrong and fbarp, that they gnaw down trees, 
wherewith they make damms crofs the waters, under which they 
keep, which areufually called Bever-Aamms , andjn fome places 
ferve in the room of foot-Bridges, 
The original rprings,that make all thefe Rivers,arifeat the foot 
of the Afpalean Mountains; but the CataraAs or falls of the Rivers 
are fixty or feventy miles diftantfrom the Mountains. 
Thefe Mountains have their beginning Northward at the Lake 
of Canada^ and run along the back of the Country to the South- weft 
as far as the lake Ufherre, which is fome hundreds of Leagues. 
There was one Colonel Gatlet^ that was a good Mathematician, 
who with fome other Gentlemen took a Joarney to make fome fur- 
ther difcoveries of the Country to the Weftward, and arrivingat 
the foot of the Mountains early in the morning, they left their 
borfes,and endeavoured to gain the tops of the Mountains, which 
they accompliflied about four of the clock in the afternoon , and 
then loDking further forward they difcovered other Mountains, 
whereof they took the altitude and judged them inaccefliblejwhich 
difcouraged them from any further attempts , their defign being 
chiefly to difcover whether there were any Rivers that ran into 
the South-ocean. 
Above five years fince there was a German Chirurgeon, who ob- 
tained a Coajmiflion from Sr.ff/V/.JS^r//^/ to travel to the South- 
weft of Virginia, and to make difcovery of thofe parts : He went 
along the foot of the Mountains as far as the Lake of Ujberre, and 
difcovered them to be paflable in two places, and he gives a relati- 
on,that,whi!e he was in an Indian town adjacent to the Mountains,, 
there came four Indians on an Embaflie to the King of that town, 
fromaRingthat lived on the other fide of the Mountains, who by 
the commandment of the King on this fide were all ftrangled, with 
whi ch barbarous ufage he was much abaflbed ^ fearing the like cru- 
city ; but they proved more civil to him, permittinghim to depart- 
in fafety. 
At his return hebrought an Emrauld^ and fome Spanifli tnony,^ 
which he fa id he had of the Indians bordering on the Lake of 
UOoerrts. 
