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with myfelf in company, continued cur former rout, 
coafling the favanna W. and N. W.; and by agree- 
ment we were all to meet again at night, at the *E. 
end of the favanna. 
We continued Tome miles cro fling over, from pro- 
montory to promontory, the mod enchanting green 
coves and villas, fcoiloping .and indenting the high 
coafls of the va'fl plain. Obferving a company of 
wolves (lupus niger) under a few trees, about a 
quarter of a mile from fhore, we rode up towards 
them ; they obferving our approach, fat on them 
hinder parts until we came nearly within fliot of 
them, when they trotted off towards the foreft , 
but flopped again and looked at us, at about two 
hundred yards diflance: we then whooped, and 
made a feint to purfue them; when they fepar-ted 
from each other, fome firetching off into the plains, 
and others feeking covert in the groves on fhore- 
When we got to the trees, we obferved they had been 
feeding on the carcafe of a horfe. The wolves of 
Florida are larger than a dog, and are perfectly 
black, except the females, which have a white fpot 
on the breafl ; but they are not fo large as the 
wolves of Canada and Pennfylvania, which are of a 
yellowifh brown colour. There were a number of 
vultures on the trees over the carcafe, who, as loon 
as the wolves ran off, immediately fettled down 
upon it; they were however held in reflraint 
and fubordination by the bald eagle (falco leu- 
cocephaius). 
On our route near a long projected point of the 
coafl, we obferved a large flock of turkeys : at 
our approach thev hallened to the groves. We foon 
gai ned the promontory. On the afeending hills were 
vdliges of an ancient Indian town* now overfha- 
O 3 dowed 
