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cray-fiffi ; in this manner the war Teemed to be 
continual. 
The gold- hill is about the fize of the anchovy* 
nearly four inches long, of a neat (lender form ; the 
head is covered with a falade of an ultramarine blue* 
the back of a reddifh brown* the Tides and belly of 
a flame* or of the colour of a fine red lead ; a nar- 
row dufky line runs along each fide, from the gills 
to the tail; the eyes are large, with the iris like 
burnilhed 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, alrnoft overfhadowed on one fide by a 
ridge of high hills* well timbered with oak, hie- 
cory, liriodendron* magnolia acuminata* pavia fyl- 
vatica* and on their rocky fumrnits* fagus calca- 
nea 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 Tapper. The In- 
dian (truck this fifh* with a reed harpoon* pointed 
very fharp* barbed* and hardened by the fire. The 
fifh lay clofe under the deep bank, which the Indian 
difeovered and (truck with his reed ; inftantly the fifli 
darted off with it* whilit the Indian purfiied* with- 
out extra£ting the harpoon* and with repeated 
thrufts drowned it* and then dragged it to (bore. 
After leaving Broad River, the land rifes very 
fenfibly, and the country being mountainous* our 
progrefs became daily more difficult and flow * yet 
the varied fee nes of pyramidal hills* high forelts, 
rich vales* Terpentine rivers* and cataracts, fully 
compenfated 
