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afcended upwards of ten or twelve feet, and conti- 
nued darning about fifteen minutes, when it was gra- 
dually extinguished 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 Shoulders, edged with a copper colour, 
which in a certain expofure looked like btirnifhed 
gold, and he feemed not infenfible of the fplendid 
appearance he made. He was reared from an egg, 
found in the foreft, and hatched by a hen of the 
common domeflic fowl. 
Our turkey of America is a very different Spe- 
cies from the meleagris of Afia and Europe ; they 
are nearly thrice their fize and weight. I have feeit 
Several that have weighed between twenty and 
thirty pounds, and fame have been killed that 
weighed near forty. They are taller, and have a 
much longer neck proportionally, and like wife 
longer legs, and Hand more eredt ; 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 temped being over, I waited till the Hoods 
of rain had run off the ground, then took leave of 
my friends, and departed. The air was now cool 
and falubrious, and riding Seven or eight miles, 
through a pine foreft, I came to Sapello bridge, 
to which the fait tide flows. I here flopped, at 
4 Mr, 
