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travels in 
which were left Handing on the bank of a fine 
creek, that, Horn this place, took a flow Terpen- 
tine courfe through the plantation. We prefently 
took Tome fiih, one kind of which is very beau- 
tiful; they call it the red-belly. It is as large as a 
man’s hand, nearly oval and thin, being comprelfed 
on each Tide ; the tail is beautifully formed ; the 
top of the head and back of an olive-green, be- 
fprinkled with ruffet fpecks ; the Tides of a fea- 
green, inclining to azure, infenfibly blended with 
the olive above, and beneath lightens to a filvery 
white, or pearl colour, elegantly powdered with 
Ipecks of the fined: green, rufiet and gold ; the 
belly is of a bright fcarlet-red, or vermillion, dart- 
ing up rays or fiery ftreaks into the pearl on each 
fide ; the ultimate angle of the branchioftega ex- 
tends backwards with a long fpatula, ending with 
a round or oval particoloured fpot, reprefenting 
the eye in the long feathers of a peacock’s train, 
verged round with a thin flame- coloured mem- 
brane, and appears like a brilliant ruby fixed on 
the fide of the Afh ; the eyes are large, encircled 
with a fiery iris ; they are a voracious fifh, and are 
eafily caught with a fuitable bait. 
The next morning I took leave of this worthy 
family, and fat off for the fettlements on the Ala- 
tamaha, ftill purfuing the high road for Fort Bar- 
rington, till towards noon, when I turned off to 
the left, following the road to Darian, a fettlement 
on the river, twenty miles lower down, and near 
the coaft. The fore part of this day’s journey was 
pleafant, the plantations frequent, and the roads in 
tolerable good repair ; but the country being now 
lefs cultivated, the roads became bad. I purfued my 
journey almoft continually through fwamps and 
creeks, waters of Newport and Sapello, till night. 
