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prove infufficient, after being haltered, a pack- 
horfe-man catches the tip end of one of his ears be- 
twixt his teeth and pinches it, when inftantly the 
furious ftrcng creature, trembling, Hands perfedly 
Hill until he is loaded. 
Our caravan confiding of about twenty men and 
fixty horfes, we made a formidable appearance, 
having now little to apprehend from predatory 
bands or out-laws. 
This day’s journey was for the moft part over 
high gravelly ridges, and on the moft elevated hills, 
appeared emerging out of the earth, rocky cliffs of 
a dark reddifti brown colour; their compofition 
feemed to be a coarfe, fandy, ferruginous concrete, 
but fo firmly cemented as to conftitute a perfect hard 
ftone or rock, and appeared to be excavated or worn 
into cavities and furrows by the violence of the dafh- 
ing billows and rapid currents of the ocean, which 
heretofore probably waflied them; there were how- 
ever ftrata or veins in thefe rocks, of a finer com- 
pofition and compact confidence, and feemed pon- 
derous rich iron ore. A little depth below the 
fandy gravelly furface, lies a ftratum of very corn- 
pad reddifh yellow clay and fragments of ochre* 
The trees and flirubs common on thefe gravelly 
ridges are as follows, Diofpyros, Quercus rubra, 
Qj nigra, Q^tindoria or great Black Oak, Q^alba, 
QAobata, poft White Oak, Qdncana, foliis ova- 
libus integerrimis fubtus incanis, Pinus lutea,Pinus 
taeda, foliis geminatis et trinis, ftrbbilo ovato bre- 
vi, cortice rimofo, Pinus paluftris, foliis trinis lon- 
giffimis, ftrobilo elongata, Cornus Florida, Andro- 
meda arborea, Nyffa fylvatica, Juglans hiccory, 
Prunus padus, &c. Of herbaceae, Solidago, Eupa- 
torium, 
