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northern parts of thefe regions ; which miift be 
confidered as a moft favourable circumilance, by 
the people in countries where there is fo much 
banking and draining of the land, they being the 
moft deftrudUve creatures to dykes* 
The roe-buck I have already mentioned. The 
bears are yet too numerous: they are a ftrong crea- 
ture, and prey on the fruits of the country, and will 
likewife devour young calves, fwine and fheep ; but 
I never could learn a well attefted inftance of their 
attacking mankind. They weigh from five hundred 
to fix hundred weight when full grown and fat : their 
flefh is greatly efteemed as food by the natives. 
The wild cat, felis cauda truncata, (lynx) is 
common enough ; it is a fierce and bold little 
animal, preying on young pigs, fawns, turkeys, &c. 
They are not half the fize of a common cur dog, 
are generally of a greyifh colour, and fomewhat 
tabbied ; their fides bordering on the belly are va- 
ried with yellowifh brown fpots, and almoft black 
waving ftreaks, and brindled. I have been credibly 
informed that the wolves here are frequently feen 
pied, black and white, and of other mixed colours, 
They affemble in companies in the night time, 
howl and bark altogether, efpecially in cold winter 
nights, w r hich is terrifying to the wandering be- 
wildered traveller. 
The foxes of Carolina and Florida are of the 
fmaller red fpecies; they bark in the night round 
about plantations, but do not bark twice in the 
fame place ; they move precipitately, and in a few 
minutes are heard on the oppofite fide of the plan- 
tation, or at a great diftance : it is faid' that dogs 
are terrified at the noife, and cannot be perfuaded 
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