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fupper, which I at firfl apprehended we had made a 
very extravagant wafte of, not being able to con- 
fume one half of its flefli, though excellently well 
cooked: my companions, however, feemed regard- 
lefs, being in the midft of plenty and variety, at any 
time within our reach, and to be obtained with little 
or no trouble or fatigue on our part; when herds of 
deer were feeding in the green meadows before us; 
flocks of turkeys walking in the groves around us, 
and myriads of fifh, of the greateft variety and de- 
licacy, fporting in the cryftalline floods before our 
eyes. 
The vultures and ravens, crouched on the crooked 
limbs of the lofty pines, at a little diftance from us, 
fharpening their beaks, in low debate, waiting to 
regale themfelves on the offals, after our departure 
from camp. 
At the return of the morning, by the powerful 
influence of light, the pulfe of nature becomes more 
adtive, and the univerfal vibration of life infenfibly 
and irrefiftibly moves the wondrous machine. How 
cheerful and gay all nature appears ! Hark ! the mu- 
fical favanna cranes, ere the chirping fparrow flirts 
from his grafly couch, or the glorious fun gilds the 
tops of the pines, fpread their expanfive w ings, leave 
their lofty roofts, and repair to the ample plains. 
From half-way pond, we proceed Weflward, 
through the high forefls of Cufcowilla. 
The appearance of the earth for five or fix miles 
prefented nearly the fame fcenes as heretofore. 
Now the fand ridges became higher, and their 
bafes proportionably more extenfive ; the favannas 
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