NORTH -AMERICA® 
with myfelf in company, continued our former rout, 
coafling the favanna W. and N. W. ; and by agree- 
ment we were all to meet again at night, at the E. 
end of the favanna. 
We continued fome miles crofting over, from pro- 
montory to promontory, the moft enchanting green 
coves and villas, fcolloping and indenting the high 
coafts of the vail plain. Obferving a company of 
wolves (lupus niger) under a few trees, about a 
quarter of a mile from fhore, we rode up towards 
them ; they obferving our approach, fat on their 
hinder parts until we came nearly within fliot of 
them, when they trotted off towards the forefls, 
but flopped again and looked at us, at about: two 
hundred yards diflance: we then whooped., and 
made a feint to purfue them ; when they feparated 
from each other, fome ftretching off into the plains, 
and others feeking covert in the groves on fhore* 
When we got to the trees, we obferved they had been 
feeding on' tlje carcafe of a horfe. The wolves of 
Florida are larger than a dog, and are perfectly 
black, except the females, which have a white fpot 
on the breaft ; but they are not fo large as the 
wolves of Canada and Pennfylvania, which are of a 
yellowiffi brown colour. There were a numbet of 
vultures on the trees over the carcafe, who, as foon 
as the wolves ran off, immediately fettled down 
upon it ; they were however held in reftraint 
and fubordination by the bald eagle (falco leu- 
cocephalus). 
On our route near a long proje&ed point of the 
coaft, we obferved a large flock of turkeys: at 
our approach they haflened to the groves. We foon 
gained the promontory. On the afcending hills were 
veftiges of an ancient Indian town, now overfha^ 
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