TRAVELS- I'M 
an half in length, and three- fourths of an inch m 
*hicknefs; the abdomen of body part is remarkably 
Ihort, and it leems to be all tail, which, though 
long, gradually attenuates to its extremity, yet not 
fmall and (lender as in fwitch fnakes. The colour 
and texture of the whole animal -is exactly like 
bluiili green glafs, which, together with its fragi- 
lity, almoft perfuades a flranger that it is in rea- 
lity of that brittle ilibflance : but it is only the tail- 
part that breaks off, which it does like glais, by a 
very gentle “ixoke from a (lender fwitch. Though 
k is quick and nimble in twilling about, yet it 
cannot run fail from one, but quickly fecrets it- 
fe If at the bottom of the grafs or under leaves. 
It is a vulgar fable, that it is able to repair 
itfelf after being broken into feveral pieces * 
which pieces, common report fays, by a power or 
faculty in the animal, voluntarily approach each 
other, join and heal again. The fun now low, 
fhot the pointed fhadows of the projecting pro- 
montories far on the fkirts of the lucid green plain t 
locks of turkeys calling upon their ftroiling aifo- 
elates, circumfpeclly marched onward to the groves 
and high forefts, their nodturnal retreats. Dewy eve 
now arrived. I turned about, and regained our en- 
campment in good time. 
The morning cool and pleafant, and the (kies 
ierene, we decamped, purfuing our progrefs- round 
the Alachua lavanna. Three of our companions 
feparatin^ from us, went a-he'ad, and v/e foon loft 
fight of? them : they again parting on different ex- 
curfionsyin quell of game and in i earth of their hoifes, 
feme entered the furrounding groves and forefts, 
others ftruck off into the green plains. My compa- 
nion, the old trader, and royfelf kept together, he 
bein^ 
