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afcended upwards of ten or twelve feet, and conti- 
nued flaming about fifteen minutes, when it was gra- 
dually 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 eredt ; he was a 
flately beautiful bird, of a very dark dufky brown 
colour, the tips of the feathers of his neck, bread, 
back, and fhoulders, 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 forefl, 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 have 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 ftand more ereht j they are alfo 
very different in colour. Ours are all, male and 
female, of a dark brown colour, not having a black 
feather on them ; but the male exceedingly fplen- 
did, with changeable colours. In other particulars 
they differ not. 
The tempeil being over, I waited till the floods 
of rain had run off the ground, then took leave of 
my n lends, and departed. The air was now cool 
and falubrious, and riding feven or eight miles, 
through a pine forefl, I came to Sapelio bridge, 
to which the fait tide flows. I here flopped, at 
Mr. 
